From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:28:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610120928.56341.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160588584.14476.28.camel@camille.gateway.2wire.net>
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 19:43, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Wow, files can exist without file names. I think I found a topic for
> discussion in philosophy class...
Nope.
A file is an inode and that either eists or doesn't. A filename is just
a dentry in a directory, it is not the file itself, it may or may not
exist, may or may not actually mean something and is there purely for
*your* benefit in userspace.
So there's no conflict.
alan
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 4:21 [gentoo-user] Dumb question Anthony E. Caudel
2006-10-11 4:42 ` Troy Curtis Jr
2006-10-11 6:20 ` Nick Rout
2006-10-11 18:05 ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-10-11 18:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-11 6:30 ` Anthony E. Caudel
2006-10-11 8:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-11 7:44 ` Pawel Kraszewski
2006-10-11 16:23 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-10-11 17:43 ` Michael Sullivan
2006-10-12 7:28 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2006-10-12 6:17 ` Anthony E. Caudel
2006-10-12 6:22 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-12 6:42 ` PaulNM
2006-10-12 7:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-12 11:55 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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