On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2020, at 9:16 AM, Luciano Mannucci <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:52:55 -0400 > > fsmithred via Dng <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was told that everything in linux is a file, even your hardware. > > No,no, this is plan9... > > > it?s been fun reading this thread. > > in plan9 everything is an object. that?s a little different. OS/2 was > that way. > > In linux everything is a file. Not true. You will find no file corresponding to your network interface(s), or your network connections. The network interface is not file based. I believe in plan 9 it is. >... directories are a type of file ?find > -type d,? for example. when you program, everything is a file. you open > it , you read from it or you write to it. you flush the buffer and you > close it. even on windows. object oriented os?s are different. > > I?ve been working with linux (and BSD and Windows - all flavors since 3.0 and > Novell Netware and DOS and OS/2. i even got to play with xenix, sco and aix a > bit, too.) since the middle 90?s. mkdir=make directory and rmdir=remove > directory (DOS md and rd) try rmdir on a directory that has something in it > and you?ll get a complaint that the ?directory? is not empty. then what?s in > the directory? another directory? perhaps, but maybe a file. > > on windows they?re folders. mac is based on bsd unix. at the command line > they?re directories. in the gui, they?re folders. i guess it?s that way > for them all. folders in the gui, directories at the command line. > > > my question would be how to differentiate directory servers (LDAP/AD (AD is > LDAP+)). from directories. they also get referred to as directories. this is > why windows changed to file folders on its nomenclature. windows command > line tools still refer to folders as directories. mkdir and rmdir still > exist on the windows system. and although no one cares OS/2 used > directory/file > > ?Curtis > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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