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How do you think it should have evolved? I personaly think posix way of filesystem needs to be changed into specialized oject filesystems, but I am not sure wha
by mmrezaie 7y ago
How do you think it should have evolved? I personaly think posix way of filesystem needs to be changed into specialized oject filesystems, but I am not sure what object filesystem for a UNIX OS should look like specially since it needs to be generalized into something all the other sub-systems can benefit from.
- pcr910303 7y agoPersonally I also preferred the ‘Everything is an object’ from the lisp machines. However, I also believe that files are an acceptable object format, since if several applications know how to manipulate a file format, it’s basically duck typing. I believe file systems could have a more formal method to query the file’s format, and has less latency so that applications could use files as an inter communication format.
- datenwolf 7y agoJust have a look at Plan9.
- strictfp 7y agoIt could have evolved into REST (which it didn't, but they're deceptively similar).
- fortran77 7y agoThere are some things like audio where it's nice to simply copy an audio file to a /dev/audio to play audio and read from /dev/audio to record audio. That doesn't preclude having more advanced interfaces, too.