Coda File System

Re: [hoarding] descendents vs. children

From: Peter J. Braam <braam_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 12:30:21 -0400 (EDT)
Done!

Hoard distinguishes between <em/children/ of a directory, which are
members of the directory, <em/descendants/ which are either children
or descendants of childres of the directory.

Peter

On Mon, 27 Apr 1998 thoth_at_purplefrog.com wrote:

> clement_at_cse.cuhk.edu.hk (LEE, Yui-wah) ,in message <199804250210.KAA08754_at_aria.
> 	cse.cuhk.edu.hk>, wrote: 
> 
> > Children are *immediate* children of a directory, decendents are
> > children plus children of children (found recusively) in a directory.
> > I am not sure if there is a discussion in the manual, but this is 
> > discussed in Jay Kistler's PhD thesis (pg. 89).
> 
>   I think this deserves a sentence in the hoard(1) manual page.  Who
> can do this for the next release?
> 
> -- 
> Bob Forsman                                   thoth_at_gainesville.fl.us
>            http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/
> 
Received on 1998-04-27 13:35:30