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What does he man by "record structure in the file system" in re to Multics?
by Torwald 7y ago
What does he man by "record structure in the file system" in re to Multics?
- tenebrisalietum 7y agoUnix files are simply a stream of bytes and outsource concern of file structure to userland. There's nowhere to set/get a type, no mechanism to create schema in the file like fields, lengths, constraints, etc. You simply can seek to a place in the file (if it's seekable) and read/write the bytes. What they mean is up to the programs/user/convention. Earlier filesystems were trying much more to be like databases.
- unused0 7y agohttp://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/honeywell/multics/AN57_userRingIO_PLM_May77.pdf http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/honeywell/multics/AN5...