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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
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Subject: Re: Hard links to directories: why not?
Keywords: ln, directories, security...
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Date: 21 Jul 90 16:27:48 GMT
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In article <6914@umd5.umd.edu> rbn@umd5.umd.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
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>And where whould you have .. point if you had multiple links to
>a directory?  Things would get pretty wierd.
>
>-Ron

Now, why could we not have .. point to a table which listed all the directories
above it?






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