AW: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Noack, Sebastian
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

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Matteo Pillon
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

AW: AW: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Noack, Sebastian
. September 2006 13:50 An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Betreff: Re: AW: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files? 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