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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: moving directories? hard links?
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:49:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimXWoLz4FkZRNV4OV6jVThi_5i6Rw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864o5r623j.fsf@cmarib.ramside>

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM,  <smiley@zenzebra.mv.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to create a data structure in the form of a directed acyclic
> graph (DAG).  A file system would be an ideal way to represent the data,
> except that P9 exposes no transaction to give a node more than one name.

warning: i'm going to try to talk about graphs. This usually ends in tears.

A file system is a DAG I believe.

There is  way to give something more than one name: mkdir

in the directory that contains it, it has the name you give it. cd
into it, and as far as you're concerned it has the name '.'.

Is this enough?

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-21 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-16  2:36 smiley
2011-04-16  2:40 ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-16  4:22 ` ron minnich
2011-04-16 16:53   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-16 17:33   ` smiley
2011-04-16 17:51     ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-21 15:32       ` smiley
2011-04-21 15:43         ` ron minnich
2011-04-16 18:22     ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 15:44       ` smiley
2011-04-21 15:49         ` ron minnich [this message]
2011-04-21 16:54         ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 20:17           ` Richard Miller
2011-04-21 21:10             ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 22:41               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-21 23:17                 ` ron minnich
2011-04-21 23:54                   ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 23:55                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22  0:01                     ` ron minnich
2011-04-22  0:04                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22  8:03                 ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-22  8:27                   ` dexen deVries
2011-04-22 13:05                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22 17:47                     ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-24 18:58                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-16 18:03   ` Richard Miller
2011-04-16 18:17     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-04-16 18:56       ` Rob Pike
2011-04-18  9:08         ` Aharon Robbins
2011-04-18 12:41           ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-18 12:59             ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-18 13:00               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-18 13:11                 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-23  3:48                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-21  9:22       ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-04-16 16:58 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-19 15:36 ` Charles Forsyth

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