Gregory M. Kapfhammer
Key Concept
Corresponding Diagram
In-Class Discussion
In-Class Activity
Details in the Textbook
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."
Phil Karlton
An identifier refers to at most one entity
Each entity is referred to by at most one identifier
An identifier is never reused in the system
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tool!Root node
Path name
Absolute path name
Relative path name
Global and local names
Name resolution methods
Useful in many types of distributed systems!