On 20/10/20 4:52 am, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
Those of us with a traditional posix filesystem background may raise eyeballs at this duplication, seeing a directory as a place that merely maps names to inodes
This is probably a holdover from MS-DOS, where there was no separate inode-like structure -- it was all in the directory entry. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QJVZ2EXFKCMZ4YHERFI2FXJTWWPFCFSA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
