Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:06:36 -0400 | | From | Michael Rothwell <> | | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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Alan Cox wrote: > But its not a file either, so if you can opendir it why cant you make it > your cwd. Lots of tools depend on that kind of behaviour since the > chdir/opendir(".") sequence is materially faster on some unixes. > > So why disallow the chdir().
Because files are not directories. Unless, of course, you "implement" streams as directories, which is actually avoiding the issue.
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