pathname

Related to pathname: relative pathname, absolute pathname

pathname

Computing the name of a file or directory together with its position in relation to other directories traced back in a line to the root; the names of the file and each of the parent directories are separated from one another by slashes

pathname

(file system)

(Or "path") The specification of a node (file or directory) in a hierarchical file system. The path is usually specified by listing the nodes top-down, separating the directories by the pathname separator ("/" in Unix, "\" in MS-DOS).

A pathname may be an absolute pathname or a relative pathname. The part of the pathname of a file after the last separator is called the basename.

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As part of the archive flow, the pathname location table (if used) should be modified to point each library reference to the appropriate location in the design-specific library.

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When executed by the ASP middleware, the following code creates the physical pathname d:\users\jdoe\databases\as.

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The Select-Files-to-be-Indexed menu item allows any file on any drive to be specified by supplying its complete pathname.

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A URL is composed of a protocol identifier, a server address, and a file pathname.

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where verb is either display or modify, unit is the pathname to the functional unit of interest (for instance, motherboard.

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The command line always remains at the bottom of the screen, showing the user what drive is currently selected and the current pathname.

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On the other hand, an association @oblocal pathname::foreign pathname@cb is sufficient for intrasystem processes (where 'foreign pathname' means a pathname created by foreign processes, not a pathname on a foreign system) [11].

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These represent, respectively, the account name, the encrypted password, the user ID number, the user's default group ID number, per-user information field, the pathname of the user's home account, and the pathname of the user's default command interpreter or shell.

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On the surface, it seemed that fingerd was too simple to have a protection bug similar to the one in sendmail; it was a very short program, and the only program it invoked (using the UNIX exec system call) was named using a constant pathname.