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Re: Stick in the mud...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:49:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> Kevin Loch <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote:
> > What filesystem allows file bar and directory bar in the foo directory?
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> Yeah, I've been wondering this too. It's pretty longstanding practice in
> unix that "ls /usr" and "ls /usr/" are going to get me exactly the same
> thing.
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> For that matter, "stat /usr" and "stat /usr/" both get me the same thing....
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> And I'm relatively certain that the situation is the same in DOS/Windows...
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More specifically try to create a file and a directory with the same parent and
same name. It doesn't work on any operating system I know of (ok I haven't
tried it on a Mac).
KL
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| (...) On servers where URLs map directly to filespecs, you can't have both /foo/bar and /foo/bar/ unless the underlying filesystem differentiates between the two. I'm not aware of any filesystems which simultaneously allow both /foo/bar and (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Stick in the mud...
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| (...) Yeah, I've been wondering this too. It's pretty longstanding practice in unix that "ls /usr" and "ls /usr/" are going to get me exactly the same thing. For that matter, "stat /usr" and "stat /usr/" both get me the same thing.... And I'm (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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