Re: Platform portable support of heir. file systems

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Interesting, I guess I must be silly too, since I tend to agree with
ken on this. Tarjei says

"It is trivial to construct a set of primitives that easily can cope
with
file systems of the most common operating systems (I have a paper
somewhere around here on this theme). The point is not to capture all
the
fine points, but enough to keep the programmers comfortable."


Hmm trivial is always a word I find dubious.

Will your set of primitives cover mainframe IBM systems (certainly
one of the most common operating systems around). How about some of
the other systems used in the information systems world, how about
real time systems with very limited file systems.

Ah! perhaps you meant Unix-like systems when you said common operating
systems, that could be it .....

Once you restrict yourself to Unix-like systems, it seems to be that
the Posix interfaces are quite appropriate.