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- Submitted-by: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris)
-
- >Using the System V file system switch (or vnodes, or xyznodes
- >or whatever ...) would allow any utility to operate on any MS/DOS
- >file on the MS/DOS partition without the need for copying.
-
- *Does* allow, at least in the case of vnodes under at least some SunOS
- releases; Sun Consulting sells (or, at least at one point, sold; dunno
- if they still do) a DOS file system for SunOS, which Steve Kleiman did
- as a sort of "proof of concept". Other vendors may have done the same.
-
- I'm not sure what all this has to do with UNIX standards, though, as
- none of the existing UNIX standards specify the on-disk format of UNIX
- file systems (thank goodness!), they just specify the interface to
- functions that manipulate files. I don't think the DOS file system can
- fully support the POSIX semantics of those functions in any case, given
- the file name limitations, the lack of full UNIX-style permission bits,
- etc., etc..
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 151
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