On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 11:57:59AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 1:56 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote: [...] > > I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies. > > If you ask folks like Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, they will tell you > all the unicorns are dead on Linux because everything is _not_ a file. > The only safe harbor for the unicorns are Plan9 and now Inferno. Plan9 > and Inferno carry on the original Unix philosophy of "everything is a > file." :-) To be fair, though, these days, with ext4, you can make a directory with 40000 entries in it and you won't notice. But yes, Plan9 is cool. Closing a GUI window by rm'ing a file has some... class :-) Cheers -- t
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