[cvsnt] Directory Being Excluded based on it's name

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Feb 8 17:43:09 GMT 2005


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Merrill Cornish wrote:
> The reason is that Unix throws filename and directory names into the same namespace.  Therefore, a directory cannot have both a subdirectory and a file with the same name.  CVS may be taking the simple-monded view that "core" means "core" regardless of the type of directory entry.  This would be yet another example of tacit assumptions of Unix users versus Windows users. Maybe.

In Unix everything is a file.

In some unixes you can even edit directories with a text editor...

Tony



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