(was slashes, now NFS devices)

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <Z4+9BX3 at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

  >> FILES ARE STATE.
>You can write block 2 of a file as many times as you like without changing
>its contents. You can't do that with a terminal.

Can you do an append-mode write to a file as many times as you want without
changing its contents more than once?  Do your programs expect that?
Can you successfully link filenames more than once?  Do your programs
understand that what was once the only operation that was pretty much
assured to be atomic now isn't?

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us