Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!news.unit0.net!uio.no!news.klingenberg.no!not-for-mail From: Espen Vestre Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.python,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:20:15 +0200 Organization: nope Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: aroma.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: tarrant.klingenberg.no 1305706818 9270 80.91.225.92 (18 May 2011 08:20:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@klingenberg.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:20:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Now-Playing: (silent) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lTrMa9EbRLR5ks2GyyriMrS+iXE= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.lisp:3503 comp.lang.python:5673 Hans Georg Schaathun writes: > On Unix, the directory is just a file, listing other files by name > and disk location. Then it is perfectly natural (although very > rarely smart) to delete a directory without any concequences to the > contents. Ironically, the only unix I know of where this makes a lot of sense is Mac OS X (where multiple hard links to a single directory is utilised by TimeMachine to minimise the size of incremental backup trees) :-) -- (espen)