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> The question isn’t if it’s possible, because of course it is, the question is if it’s portable and well supported with the POSIX interface. Because if it’s not, then…

Where did this goalpost come from? S3 is not portable or POSIX compliant.



From the article we're commenting on, which is comparing the interface of S3 to the POSIX interface. Not any given filesystem + platform specific interface.


The article does not mention POSIX, or anything about listing files, at all.


It mistakenly mentions UNIX whilst referencing the POSIX filesystem API, and I literally quoted where it talks about listing in my original comment.


The article starts out by making a comparison between the posix api filesystem calls and S3's api. The context is very much a comparison between those two api surface areas.




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