> A colleague said, "Everything is a file." OS/360 aimed for that
> target with the abstraction of DD names, but missed by exposing
> hardware characteristics with "attributes" such as RECFM=FBM.
That was not an OS/360 design goal, but I don't believe that there is any
conflict between
On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:26:29 -0400, Rick Troth wrote:
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>Here's a neat trick: you can make a hard link to a sym-link.
>
I believe that's not required for POSIX conformance. But I may
be misled by the lack of that ability in the "ln" utility.
>There are only a handful of actual file *types*:
>
>
I don't follow your comparison of PDS/e and Unix filesystems.
If I saw correlation of Linux filesystems with PDS, I glossed over it as
stoopid. (Here again, I feel your pain.)
My understanding is that PDS is (historically) a means of segmenting one
data set into related chunks. They're
