What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

[Andrew Hume]

In article <459 at crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, barnett at crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
> Long filenames are great. I use filenames all the time to hold
> extra information, which allows database queries using shell meta-characters.


storing information is what a filesystem is for.
if you want to use regular expressions, put the information
in a file. don't complicate a universal mechanism like
the file-system name space just so you can be lazy about
selecting filenames.