Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 18:04:57 -0700 | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Sounds like "treat it like a file and it acts like a file, treat it > like a directory and it acts like a directory". >
The original plan was that you only could indirect through it; not chdir() for example. One could do the whole enchilada, but then one would have to expect that open() could have very different effects with and without O_DIRECTORY (and open() on directories without O_DIRECTORY should be outlawed with prejudice.)
-hpa
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