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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: "Symbolic links" with the finder?
Message-ID: <1990May24.164053.15352@siia.mv.com>
Date: 24 May 90 16:40:53 GMT
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In <2456@network.ucsd.edu> barry@network.ucsd.edu (Barry Brown) writes:

>There are times when having symbolic links would be nice.  In fact, I
>can think of one case where they would be handy (I'm facing a problem
>links would solve)...

>Wouldn't it be possible to create a second directory entry for one
>file and have, say, an INIT watch over the links to make sure the
>user doesn't try to use a link to access a file that has been
>deleted or moved?

Personally, I like a filesystem that supports "hard" links.
(like UNIX :-)

If properly implemented, they don't require a hack to make sure 
references are correct--they always are.

At any rate, any modern filesystem should provide some kind
of efficient aliasing for files, and perhaps even directories.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company(sm)]