On Monday 18 March 2002 4:51 am, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > Hi ! > > I came across this line : " the main advantage of UNIX/Linux systems is > that the I/O is stream oriented as opposed to record oriented for other OS > " - what does stream oriented I/O mean ? And why is it advantageous ? > Could someone please explain or at least point to the relevant links ?
Which means that the disk (and files on the disk) is considered as a stream of bytes. Some older OSes considered files as a collection of records. So, each file had concepts like field separator, record separator etc. attached to it. If an OS implements stream oriented I/O, then file formats are for the applications to decide. So, you can have a PDF file created on one OS and read it in another. With record oriented I/O, file formats are decided by the OS. A PDF created on one OS might not be openable on another OS. Binand _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
