Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!milton!ogicse!intelhf!ichips!iwarp.intel.com!gargoyle!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: (was slashes, now NFS devices) Message-ID: <1991Mar12.171835.495@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 12 Mar 91 17:18:35 GMT References: <12662:Mar620:02:2491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX Lines: 14 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> FILES ARE STATE. >You can write block 2 of a file as many times as you like without changing >its contents. You can't do that with a terminal. Can you do an append-mode write to a file as many times as you want without changing its contents more than once? Do your programs expect that? Can you successfully link filenames more than once? Do your programs understand that what was once the only operation that was pretty much assured to be atomic now isn't? Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us