[Python-Dev] Re: os.scandir bug in Windows?

On 20/10/20 4:52 am, Gregory P. Smith wrote:

Those of us with a traditional posix filesystem background may raise eyeballs at this duplication, seeing a directory as a place that merely maps names to inodes

This is probably a holdover from MS-DOS, where there was no separate inode-like structure -- it was all in the directory entry. -- Greg