[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Thu Apr 30 14:59:37 EDT 2009


Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <gtb2g2$epn$2 at naig.caltech.edu>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>> AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> How? And it's still not a file.
>> In unix everything is a file.
> 
>    Please bring us up to date:
> 
>       Which files are my shell symbols?

Look in /proc!  Your process is a file and your shell symbols are stored 
in the shell's address space.

>       Which file is my username (NOT which file contains my username)?

Almost everything is a file or can be treated as a file.!  Your username 
is not, AFAIK, a file.

<snip>



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