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- Submitted-by: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
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- In article <541@usenix.ORG> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
- >In the filesystem abstraction, you open a filename in one stage. [...]
- >
- >You can easily construct other examples, but one should be enough to
- >convince you that open() just isn't sufficiently general for everything
- >that you might read() or write().
-
- What prevents us from inventing a few additional filesystem operations
- that ARE general enough?
-
- I think the important thing about the filesystem abstraction that is being
- debated here, is the idea of a common name space, and that idea does not
- require open() to be an indivicible operation, and it does not require that
- open() must be the only way to associate a file descriptor to a named object,
- as long as there is only one name space.
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