On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> Unlike Plan 9 we have a userland that Should Not Be Broken(tm). And we
> have this "POSIX-compliant" thing too... Linus, POSIX has a lot of nasty
> words about mixing files and directories. And I'm afraid that saying "no,
> foo is file, it just happens to have children" won't work - that way you
> are going to screw a lot of userland stuff.
Note that NFS isn't strictly a POSIX filesystem. And certainly neither is
MSDOSfs or /proc.
Not being POSIX doesn't mean that they are useless.
Linus
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