Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:42:11 +0300 | Subject | Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right |
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Theodore Ts'o writes:
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> > I believe that there is a big difference between, "I want the file > named /home/tytso/src/e2fsprogs/e2fsck/e2fsck.c", and "I remember > vaguely that 5 years ago, I read a paper about the effects of high-fat > diets on akida's, where the first name of the author was Tom". The > first is a filename lookup. The second is a search. I would like > better search tools for files in a filesystem, no doubt. But I would > never, ever put a search that might return an ambiguous number of > responses (that might change over time as more files are added to the > filesystem) in a Makefile as a source file.
It is called "a directory". :) There is no crime in putting
cc src/*.c
into Makefile. I think that Hans' query-result-object denoting multiple objects is more like directory than single regular file.
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> > > - Ted
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