Conrad Parker wrote:
the days when unix was pure and kfish was in nappies, you could actually
edit directories directly; or so I've heard. But then some usability nuts
Well not edit (although the format was simple enough to be able to
edit the filesystem partition through a binary editor) but we used
read(2) to read the directory entries right into a struct defined
under /usr/include/sys/, quickly enough it was wrapped in library
functions which quite much later were inserted as system calls
into the kernel, I think together with the introduction of NFS.
(Ahh, the old days, when men were men and crashed disk heads resulted
in thin ceramic dust all over the computer room :)
Cheers,
--Amos
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