Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:43:56 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives |
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Horst von Brand wrote:
>Spam <spam@tnonline.net> said: > > >>Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> said: >> >> >>>Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no> said: >>> >>> >>>[...] >>> >>> >>>>The only new thing needed is the ability for something to be both >>>>file and directory at the same time. >>>> >>>> >>>Then why have files and directories in the first place? >>> >>> > > > >> Good point, we don't need them :) >> >> > >Great. Then everything is a firectory (or dile?). And a firectory points at >other firectories and contains data. I just don't see how you are supposed >to distinguish the data from further firectories... > > By name. fopen("somefile", "r"); //opens somefile data fopen("somefile/substream", "r"); //opens a substream of somefile.
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