Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

[Nikita Danilov]

Theodore Ts'o writes:

[...]

 > 
 > I believe that there is a big difference between, "I want the file
 > named /home/tytso/src/e2fsprogs/e2fsck/e2fsck.c", and "I remember
 > vaguely that 5 years ago, I read a paper about the effects of high-fat
 > diets on akida's, where the first name of the author was Tom".  The
 > first is a filename lookup.  The second is a search.  I would like
 > better search tools for files in a filesystem, no doubt.  But I would
 > never, ever put a search that might return an ambiguous number of
 > responses (that might change over time as more files are added to the
 > filesystem) in a Makefile as a source file.  

It is called "a directory". :) There is no crime in putting

cc src/*.c

into Makefile. I think that Hans' query-result-object denoting multiple
objects is more like directory than single regular file.

[...]

 > 
 > 
 > 						- Ted

Nikita.
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