The Portable Operating System Interface standards specify interfaces and observable behaviour for portable programs, including file descriptors, hard links and unlinking an open file. Their requirements do not prescribe one on-storage inode layout. The worked examples below use POSIX Unix semantics for ordinary files. [ref]
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html. The Open Group, POSIX.1-2024, definitions of files, directories and file descriptors
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