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From: bruce@it.usyd.edu.au
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] FS question
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:30:19 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311110230.hAB2UJg18931@cpu1.cs.usyd.edu.au> (raw)

If a file could be removed but still remain accessible
(via an open file descriptor) then that might suggest an implementation
where the file was distinct from its name.  Once that separation
existed then it might have been thought interesting to allow
multiple names for the same file.

What did Multics do?
ken?


             reply	other threads:[~2003-11-11  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-11  2:30 bruce [this message]
2003-11-11 10:26 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-11-11 12:28   ` Lucio De Re
2003-11-12 11:13     ` Boyd Roberts
2003-11-12 19:55       ` Andrew Simmons
2003-11-12 20:17         ` Brantley Coile
2003-11-12 21:18           ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-12 21:16         ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-13  0:34           ` [9fans] Bruce Michael Baldwin
2003-11-13  9:32           ` [9fans] FS question Skip Tavakkolian
2003-11-13 16:47             ` Dan Cross
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-14  6:49 Andrew Simmons
2003-11-10 14:01 Brantley Coile
2003-11-10 15:07 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-10 17:14   ` Brantley Coile
2003-11-10 17:43     ` Russ Cox
2003-11-10 17:49       ` Sape Mullender
2003-11-11  1:47         ` Dennis Ritchie
2003-11-11  0:01     ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-13  0:10     ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-10 16:40 ` Rob Pike
2003-11-10 17:09   ` Brantley Coile
2003-11-10 17:39     ` ron minnich

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