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From: Robert Ransom <rransom.8774@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] files vs. directories
Date: Thu,  3 Feb 2011 17:42:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110203174214.2df27fa6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86aaidkli8.fsf@cmarib.ramside>

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On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:42:39 +0000
smiley@zenzebra.mv.com wrote:

> There's no way that I know of to possibly interperet a path ending in
> "/" as a file (with the exception of reading raw Dir data, as on Plan
> 9 or "cat /" on, what was it, Solaris?).

FreeBSD 8.0 lets you cat the raw data of a directory, and I would
expect the other free BSDs to have that misfeature, too.


Robert Ransom

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-04  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-03 11:45 dexen deVries
2011-02-03 13:05 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 13:40   ` dexen deVries
2011-02-03 13:59     ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 13:36 ` roger peppe
2011-02-03 13:40   ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 13:44   ` dexen deVries
2011-02-03 14:15     ` roger peppe
2011-02-03 14:27       ` dexen deVries
2011-02-03 18:42         ` smiley
2011-02-03 22:33           ` dexen deVries
2011-02-04  1:42           ` Robert Ransom [this message]
2011-02-04  1:49             ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-04  3:30               ` Robert Ransom
2011-02-04  4:11                 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-02-04  4:17                   ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-02-04  5:36                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 14:35       ` dexen deVries
2011-02-03 16:58 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-03 23:13   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-02-04  0:24     ` smiley
2011-02-04  0:45       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-02-04  1:29         ` Nick LaForge
2011-02-04 18:26 Lucio De Re
2011-02-04 18:28 Lucio De Re
2011-02-04 18:31 Lucio De Re
2011-02-04 18:41 ` Lucio De Re
2011-08-21 17:33 ` Enrico Weigelt
2011-02-04 18:38 Lucio De Re

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