From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXv4s-0005NH-Uo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:34:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9C7UHJU027904; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:30:17 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9C7S7C4000404 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:28:08 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43798344F for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:32:25 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id C8O6HrqtFU9h for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:32:19 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6418343D for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:32:19 +0200 (SAST) Received: from jimmynote.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.87]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:29:52 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:28:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <452C714D.2030008@gt.rr.com> <1160588584.14476.28.camel@camille.gateway.2wire.net> In-Reply-To: <1160588584.14476.28.camel@camille.gateway.2wire.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610120928.56341.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Oct 2006 07:29:52.0687 (UTC) FILETIME=[351F6BF0:01C6EDD0] X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9C7S7C4000404 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9C7UHJw027904 X-Archives-Salt: bd4af62c-00f7-4add-ab0a-343166a02e86 X-Archives-Hash: f425504231ae5e68a043aea2a976aef3 On Wednesday 11 October 2006 19:43, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Wow, files can exist without file names. =A0I 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=20 a dentry in a directory, it is not the file itself, it may or may not=20 exist, may or may not actually mean something and is there purely for=20 *your* benefit in userspace. So there's no conflict. alan --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list