Hi,
the question is, what is a file? I would say; a file is an object related to a
specific inode. So a directory would be a file as well as FIFOs, unix-sockets,
char, block-devices, symlinks and of course regular files.
The problem is, that not each kind of file is threaded the same way on
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Noack, Sebastian wrote:
But independent from this aspect, a file refers in its inode to a
chunk of storage on the hard disk (or other storage medias), which
contains its data. But some files like directories don't contain data.
A directory IS like
. September 2006 13:50
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Hi,
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Noack, Sebastian wrote:
But independent from this aspect, a file refers in its inode to a
chunk of storage on the hard disk
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