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

[email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi) Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:27:11 -0500

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On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:40:07AM -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> This all seems like a lot of work for (what I would consider to be) the

Read carefully the subject: *internal* representation.  If you are
opening a file with open() or sysopen(), you supply a string with your
native FS semantics and think no more of it.

> common, default case - wanting to open a file native to my OS, on a
> filesystem seen by my OS.  Or am I clue-lossy again?
> 
>  -- 
> Bryan C. Warnock
> ([email protected])

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