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Author: Hendrik Boom
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Subject: Re: [DNG] terminology
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 02:02:07PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2020-08-23 03:19, spiralofhope wrote:
>
> > > Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity
> > > for something which might be a file or a directory?
> >
> > Perhaps something like inode?
>
> struct stat ;-)


Hhmmm. that's already an in-memory data structure with more
than I need, but without my application's information about the
file or directory.

Close.

But since I'm already using that in my system interface to
distinguish files from directoriescfrom everything else,
it's already taken.

-- hendrik

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