pathnames [Re: files, printers, etc. [Re: The feel of a Lisp

[Luca Pisati]

Mike McDonald wrote:
> 
> >Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 14:29:54 -0700
> >From: Luca Pisati <pisati@nichimen.com>
> >To: Mike McDonald <mikemac>
> >Subject: Re: pathnames [Re: files, printers, etc. [Re: The feel of a Lisp
> >
> >Mike McDonald wrote:
> >>
> >> >Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 13:25:17 +1000
> >> >From: "Chris Bitmead uid(x22068)" <Chris.Bitmead@alcatel.com.au>
> >> >Subject: Re: pathnames [Re: files, printers, etc. [Re: The feel of a Lisp
> >> >To: lispos@math.gatech.edu
> 
> >> >"You're still assuming simple directed graph structure with a single
> >> >key for getting at your objects."
> >> >
> >>
> >>   Nope, not that either. Even Unix has a many to one mapping when it
> >> comes to its file systems.
> >
> >Do you mean links ?
> >
> >>   Mike McDonald
> >>   mikemac@engr.sgi.com
> >
> >--
> >Luca Pisati                   Voice:    (310) 577-0518
> 
>   Links, and .. both allow you to create multiple paths to the same
> file.

And we do have a problem, indeed with links.

We do save out files, which contain references to other files.
Whenever users start to access one of those files through a
different link, well, then we can have troubles.

I would like to have more than one path, if those paths would
be always known (as if I could ask to unix: which is the
primary path of this path ?)  Well, mostly I think I would
like to have a database oriented FS in which file referencing
other files would be known to the database ...

>   Mike McDonald
>   mikemac@engr.sgi.com

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