Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem

Chip Salzenberg chip at tct.uucp
Tue Feb 5 09:16:41 AEST 1991


According to sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan):
>And, yeah, there have been times when I would have liked to have seen
>a "round" file (i.e., wrapping around the end).

So create a circular file subroutine library that looks at the top of
the file for "maxsize,curpos\n".  We use one here; it's very handy,
and it's usable on all UNIX implementations with file/record locks.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
 "Most of my code is written by myself.  That is why so little gets done."
                 -- Herman "HLLs will never fly" Rubin



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