Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Given the flexibility of UNIX in general and Linux in particular, tho, 
>> I'm sure any problems could be worked around without much difficulty, 
> 
>   *Everything* in Unix is a file.

I'm not sure what you're trying to express here. I meant that in the 
UNIX setups I've seen with distributed sharing of home directories off a 
central server, there's a bunch of information that has to be configured 
at each client to make it work. I.e., if I want to log in with my home 
directory on *this* client machine, I have to configure *this* client 
machine to know where *my* directory is, rather than just point the 
entire machine at the right server.

And what I was trying to express is "that's a pretty small problem to 
solve in UNIX, if it bothers you."

For all I know, it's already been solved.

> Unix *is* a file manager OS. Anything
> you can imagine you could do with files and directories, is possible
> in unix, if by nothing else, by a little programming.

Not quite, but pretty close, ya. Not quite everything is a file, or you 
wouldn't need other system calls. :-) The Amiga actually came much 
closer to making everything a file than UNIX ever did.

>   I hear it's not even that hard to create your own file system driver
> in unix (or at least linux).

Nor is it in Windows. Not sure what the point is.

(I already agreed it's not much of a problem. It's just one I've never 
seen solved in a general way in UNIX. Maybe it is. :-)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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