Greetings
A friend and mentor in all things Linux was a proponent of Devuan.
Sadly he died some months ago so I now have to ask those I don't know
possibly stupid questions.
I have run Debian systems for some 15 to 18 years (can't remember when
I switched from Fedora Core but a long time ago).
Directory entry?
вс, 23 авг. 2020 г., 21:56 Steve Litt :
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 03:19:12 -0700
> spiralofhope wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 09:59:53 -0400
> > Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >
> > > Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity
> > > for something which might be a file or a
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:15:52 -0400
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> So if we were to use fd as short for file-or-directory it could
> better be short for file descriptor.
Not in my opinion. Some people get infuriated when confronted with
"insider" acronyms, which is what fd sounds like. Also, fd is
Curtis Maurand via Dng [24.08.2020 16:30]:
> in plan9 everything is an object.
Not at all. Everything is a file, not an object, whatever that is.
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:43:26AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote:
> On 8/24/20 10:32 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >
> > Mu memory may be failing ne after almost half a century, but I recall
> > that the original Unix, way back in the early 70's,
> > even directories could be read as files. Not
On 8/24/20 10:32 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> Mu memory may be failing ne after almost half a century, but I recall
> that the original Unix, way back in the early 70's,
> even directories could be read as files. Not that there was
> some hidden trickery making them into files; instead there
On 23/08/2020 14:59, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> There are files and directories.
>
> Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity
> for something which might be a file or a directory?
Directories are just files that contain file metadata information in a format
specific to the filesystem
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 03:15:22PM +0200, Luciano Mannucci wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:52:55 -0400
> fsmithred via Dng wrote:
>
> > I was told that everything in linux is a file, even your hardware.
> No,no, this is plan9...
As well as its successor, Inferno.
Lots of things are files in
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> On Aug 24, 2020, at 9:16 AM, Luciano Mannucci
> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:52:55 -0400
> fsmithred via Dng 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
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:52:55 -0400
fsmithred via Dng wrote:
> I was told that everything in linux is a file, even your hardware.
No,no, this is plan9...
Luciano.
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On 8/23/20 6:37 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> On 2020-08-23 17:20, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>
>> I suspect that's what I'm going to have to do.
>> Unless something better comes along I'm calling it a Thing.
>> I do hope something better comes along.
>>
>> -- hendrik
>
> From my early Linux days I
Hendrik:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 01:51:05AM +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote:
> > Hendrik:
> > > There are files and directories.
> > >
> > > Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity
> > > for something which might be a file or a directory?
> >
> > One could possible use "file
Hi,
On 23/08/2020 15:59, Hendrik Boom wrote:
There are files and directories.
Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity
for something which might be a file or a directory?
if you refer to the "string" to object on the filesystem, "path" is a
good word for it.
A Path can
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