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From: blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 & Aliases
Message-ID: <280@6sigma.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 89 05:57:44 GMT
References: <3948@internal.Apple.COM> <561@pyuxf.UUCP>
Reply-To: blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <561@pyuxf.UUCP> asg@pyuxf.UUCP (alan geller) writes:
|OK, OK, OK.  So far I've read dozens of complaints about Apple implementing
|file aliases using 'file ids'.  Many of the complaints have mentioned how
|terrible this is, especially compared to what Unix does.
|WHAT DO YOU THINK AN INODE IS, PEOPLE?!?!?!?!?!

Oh, which system calls in Unix take inode numbers?

|Let's look at this another way.  Given the ability to rename files, so that
|pathnames are not sufficient for permanently identifying files;

Uh, who said they wanted to permanently identify files?  I certainly
didn't.
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