From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: symlinks and W32 [was: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory]
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 16:15:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB49770A25B658118F660DE23F96C29@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210821071936.GD5008@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:19:36 +0200")
tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 10:00:25AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 08:48:29 +0200
>> > From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
>> >
>> > That's because DOS got all confused between direntries and inodes,
>> > and Microsoft never recovered from that (despite having hired a pro
>> > to do NT for them, but I disgress ;-P
>>
>> I don't see how inodes are relevant to this,
>
> Note the tongue-in-cheek. But yes, the truth beneath that buffoon is
> that Microsoft had to bend a properly designed file system to adapt
> to the expectations of a FAT spoiled audience. From there stem lots
> of problems.
>
>> and NTFS does have their equivalent internally.
>
> I know. This was the pros I was hinting at, Tom Miller, Dave Cutler
> et al, scooped up when DEC went supernova.
>
> The thing with the inode/direntry was more a metaphor for "DOS FAT
> is at a too low level of abstraction, and NTFS pays the price for
> that".
>
> Not that important. Just a hysterical nootfote.
https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story
This quite a regression now, but for anyone interested in history.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-21 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-08 15:40 Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-08 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-08 18:53 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-08 20:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-08 22:43 ` dick
2021-08-08 23:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-09 0:43 ` dick
2021-08-09 3:13 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-09 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-09 18:33 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-09 18:49 ` dick
2021-08-09 22:11 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-10 8:24 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-10 8:31 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-09 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-09 22:14 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-10 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 8:10 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-10 12:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 13:43 ` Yuri Khan
2021-08-10 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 15:10 ` Yuri Khan
2021-08-10 15:39 ` dick
2021-08-10 15:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-10 17:31 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-10 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 17:25 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-10 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 18:06 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-10 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 20:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-11 2:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-11 5:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-11 13:42 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-08-11 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-11 18:21 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-08-12 5:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 17:35 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-10 17:24 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-10 17:22 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-10 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-09 6:52 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-09 11:50 ` dick
2021-08-09 15:27 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-19 9:25 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-19 20:24 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-19 21:43 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-19 21:47 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-19 21:59 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-20 0:21 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-20 21:36 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-21 2:46 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 3:12 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-21 6:48 ` tomas
2021-08-21 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-21 7:19 ` symlinks and W32 [was: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory] tomas
2021-08-21 14:15 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2021-08-21 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-21 19:12 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 14:34 ` Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-21 19:10 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-21 20:25 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-22 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-25 10:47 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-25 22:13 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-26 9:42 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-26 15:58 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-20 10:23 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-08-20 12:47 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-23 9:14 ` Max Brieiev
2021-08-24 21:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-25 11:13 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-25 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-25 14:55 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-25 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-26 0:16 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-26 4:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-26 15:38 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-26 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-26 21:40 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-25 22:29 ` Arthur Miller
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