Re: Internal Filename Representations (was Re: Summary of I/O related RFCs)

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> > Splitting apart or putting together either one of these paths is trivial
> 
> I think it's far from trivial, especially if you want to take into
> account network names, file versions, protection attributes and ACLs, ...

Access details like this are largely independent of the logical
manipulations made with pathnames.  I can claim that there is
"/foo/bar/zap.txt" and I can say that file directory part is
"/foo/bar", but whether such an entity really exists, is a different
matter.

> -- Johan

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