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Re:Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the ro... by gugagore on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @08:44AM (#20154876)
One thing missing from this rethinking, as far as I can tell, is names.

You can't move pointers between different processes in general, because each process has its own "memory address namespace". But an absolute path generated by one program does make sense to another program.

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Re:Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the ro... by hlandau on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @01:10PM (#20157354)
That's true. I mainly cover this point - filesystems as a means of connecting different applications together - in another article: https://www.devever.net/~hl/nexuses
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