Re: 20 years without semantic innovation is enough

Greg Lindahl (lindahl@cs.virginia.edu)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:06:47 -0400 (EDT)


> You say it's time for file semantics to change. Why?

In particular, there were OSes that had these "new" semantics nearly
20 years ago. There are well known problems with every kind of
filesystem semantics. I've seen these problems mentioned in this
discussion, and they are certainly not solved.

-- g

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