Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:10:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So "/tmp/bash" is _not_ two different things. It is _one_ entity, that > contains both a standard data stream (the "file" part) _and_ pointers to > other named streams (the "directory" part).
Thinking about it some more, how would file managers and file chosers handle this situation ?
Currently the user browses the directory tree and when the user clicks on something, one of the following happens:
1) if it is a directory, the file manager/choser changes into that directory
2) if it is a file, the file is opened
Now how do we present things to users ?
How will users know when an object can only be chdired into, or only be opened ?
For objects that do both, how does the user choose ?
Do we really want to have a file paradigm that's different from the other OSes out there ?
What happens when users want to transfer data from Linux to another system ?
-- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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