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Subject:    Re: [DNG] Terminology question
From:       Hendrik Boom <hendrik () topoi ! pooq ! com>
Date:       2020-08-24 1:15:33
Message-ID: 20200824011533.b6ac6wshfv4mnlsc () topoi ! pooq ! com
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 08:26:47PM -0400, . via Dng wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 09:59:53 -0400
> > Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> > There are files and directories.
> >
> > Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity
> > for something which might be a file or a directory?
> >
> > -- hendrik
> 
> 
> Maybe "filesystem element" ?

That would work.

> 
> My understanding is that filesystems such as /dev and /proc contain
> things that aren't quite files /or/ directories.
> 

Right.  I wouldn't mind it the noun included those, too.  I will run
into them occasionally, stat them and decide I don't need to process them.

-- hendrik



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