From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ag4ve.us@gmail.com (shawn wilson) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 01:21:16 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Early non-Unix filesystems? In-Reply-To: <56EC344F.6040507@acm.org> References: <20160318004832.GA18245@minnie.tuhs.org> <56EC344F.6040507@acm.org> Message-ID: On Mar 18, 2016 1:02 PM, "Pat Barron" wrote: > > Even as late as V7, "." and ".." were not automatically added to directories when created - the "mkdir" program used mknod() to create the directory, and then created the links for "." and ".." by itself. Is that the last Unix that had a major number for file system objects? I hadn't run into this but, thinking about it, it's kinda smart (probably slower than specific execve kernel calls but still cool). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: