On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:43:26AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 8/24/20 10:32 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Mu memory may be failing ne after almost half a century, but I recall > > that the original Unix, way back in the early 70's, > > even directories could be read as files. Not that there was > > some hidden trickery making them into files; instead there were > > conventions how files could be treated as directories. > > > > I had to look up Plan 9, and in doing so, I found that "Everything is a > file" has its own wikipedia page. It says, "But file descriptors are also > created for things like anonymous pipes and network sockets via different > methods. Therefore a more accurate description of this feature is > Everything is a file descriptor." > > And the page for File descriptor says, "In Unix-like systems, file > descriptors can refer to any Unix file type named in a file system. As > well as regular files, this includes directories, block and character > devices (also called "special files")"
So if we were to use fd as short for file-or-directory it could better be short for file descriptor. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
