On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:52:29AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > I don't know of any specific term for a directory's physical > manifestation, other than "directory". > > In the olden days, a directory was basically a series of 16-byte > records (14 bytes for the filename, 2 bytes for the inode number), > repeated as necessary. ...and those are the directory entries. In olden days, a directory was much more of a file than these days. You could create a hard link to it, which could cause some hilarity, because now the file system tree could have cycles... Ah, the olden days :-) Cheers -- t
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