Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!fernwood!oracle!news From: pnakada@oracle.com (Paul Nakada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Logical file linking? Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 90 16:57:28 GMT References: <1990Jun1.190541.2119@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <13041@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1990Jun4.014522.1843@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> Sender: news@oracle.com Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA Lines: 19 In article <1990Jun4.014522.1843@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes: > > So what? Soft links could be implemented as a new storage type, with the linked > pathname stored in the key block. Prodos Pascal partitions and GS/OS forked > files are implemented using new storage types also. > Prodos 8 might barf on them but GS/OS programs shouldn't notice the difference. Todd, I think Doug was refering to a "hard link" in which just saving the path name wouldn't help. There would have to be some centralized index file that both could refer to, like an inode. -Paul Nakada -- Paul Nakada | Oracle Corporation | pnakada@oracle.com