Re: Internal Filename Representations (was Re: Summary of I/O related RFCs)

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:19:03PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Access details like this are largely independent of the logical
> > manipulations made with pathnames.  I can claim that there is
> > "/foo/bar/zap.txt" and I can say that file directory part is
> > "/foo/bar", but whether such an entity really exists, is a different
> > matter.
> 
>   @parts = qw(sy $ foo bar 262);
> 
> Now, create a file in the same directory with the same type, and name
> blech. Any idea?

Sigh.  Has anybody actually *read* my RFC? :-)  I do not propose a flat
list of equally important components, but instead a struct of components,
all with various roles.

> -- Johan

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