Okay, I'm gonna throw a bit more fuel onto this fire :-) On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 at 15:58, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you ask folks like Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, they will tell you > all the unicorns are dead on Linux because everything is _not_ a file. > The only safe harbor for the unicorns are Plan9 and now Inferno. Plan9 > and Inferno carry on the original Unix philosophy of "everything is a > file." > > What you call a directory does not matter because the unicorns were > nearly extinct already. > Yes, but we (on Linux and I *think* on good old System V and BSD 4.3) have mkfile and mkdir - so surely that means that everything (stored on a bit of rotating rust) is *not* a file :-) Cheers! -- *Paul Duncan* Lead Marine Technician, RV Falkor(too) SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE mobile +1 650 387 4151 VOIP +1 954 672 4943 www.schmidtocean.org Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ *This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged* *information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you have received it in* *error, please advise the sender by reply email and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.*
