Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for? | Date | Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:21:30 -0400 |
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On Friday 19 July 2002 01:40 am, Thunder from the hill wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Rob Landley wrote: > > That's it, I'm going to go email Dennis Richie... > > If you want to be sure whether or not you can rely on index, you better go > ask Maurice. I know another person who should have known that, but he's > dead for quite long now. I never cared, unfortunately. > > Regards, > Thunder
I emailed dmr but don't expect to hear from him before moring if he actually notices my email at all.
I did track down my copy of The design of the unix operating system and sure enough, on page 22, in section 2.2.1 (an overview of the file subsystem):
"The term inode is a contraction of the term <i>index node</i> and is commonly used in literature on the UNIX system."
That's probably good enough for me, actually. Now my NEXT unanswered question is why the heck Darpa's "Information Awareness Office" has a picture of the Bavarian Illuminati in its logo, but I doubt that's something this list can help me with. Me, I would have picked the gnomes of zurich. Or the UFOs, for the second attack. Or in the expansion pack, The Networks, since transferrable power is so useful anyway...
(P.S. I'm not quite kidding: http://www.darpa.mil/iao/ ).
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