learning about daemon-free metadata

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

Hi Seth, I have two questions for you about your daemon-free metadata 
proposal.

1) With your proposal, if one application says:

	setMetadata("/this/is/my/filename", "icon", "dog");

and another application says:

         setMetadata("/this/is/my/filename", "preferred application", 
"gimp");

at the same time, are both of these changes guaranteed to be made? Or 
might one be lost?

2) With your proposal, if one application says:

	setMetadata("/this/is/my/filename", "tiny-thumbnail-jpeg", 22K of 
image data in JPEG format);

and another application says:

         setMetadata("/this/is/my/filename", "tiny-thumbnail-jpeg", 14K 
of image data in JPEG format);

at the same time, are you guaranteed to get either one set of icon data 
or the other? Or could you end up with something that's half of one and 
half of the other and not valid JPEG?

The answers to these two questions may help me understand your proposal.

    -- Darin