Messages in this thread | | | Date | 07 Nov 1999 13:36:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Patent |
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Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com (Matthew Wilcox) wrote on 07.11.99 in <19991107121900.C24455@mencheca.ch.genedata.com>:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 09:10:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > The filesystem *is* a database - a *specialized* database. A typical Unix > > fs, for example, allows for exactly one type of key (a pathname) and has > > only BLOBs for non-key data fields (the file data). OTOH, an AS/400 file > > system is just a view onto a relational database. (Even the active > > processes are in that database.) > > /proc
Nope, not at all the same thing.
/proc is a fs view of the processes. The AS/400 has a fs view of a relational database, and the processes are *part of that database*. (Among other things, they survive reboots.)
It's a seriously strange OS.
MfG Kai
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