Re: file as a directory

[Horst von Brand]

Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

[...]

> Perhaps a better way to think about this is that instead of talking
> about directories and files, we just talk about objects.

Then you have a collection of interrelated objects, i.e., a database.
Operating systems that work on databases (no filesystem) have been done,
and are a nice idea... but are far, far away from Unix.
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