John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> is widely believed to have written:

> Since I'm fiddling with file primitives I'd better ask.
> 
> Are we missing something at the primitive layer? At this point we 
> should be able to open, close, read, write, seek, truncate, and 
> flush. Soooo what have we forgotten?
A decent way to handle file attributes such as type/creator/permissions.
The lack of this is why I had to munge up a fudgy FileCopyPlugin to help
the VMMaker.

tim
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