Re: need filetype field in directory entries

Johan M. Andersen (johan@columbia.edu)
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:00:11 -0400 (EDT)

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> At first sight this may look like a proposal to bloat the Unix file
> system. But the filetype info really belongs into each directory
> entry, because

Are you sure it belongs in the directory entry and not the inode? Can two
links to the same file have different types?

/johan

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