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From: conrad@tharr.UUCP (Conrad Longmore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Hard links to directories: why not?
Keywords: ln, directories, security...
Message-ID: <849@tharr.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 90 06:44:47 GMT
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Reply-To: conrad@tharr.UUCP (Conrad Longmore)
Organization: Bedford College Computer Centre, UK
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Multics got this right of course! :-) None of this tedious mucking about with
links into where the files really were... the file in Multics are really in
the directory that they seem to be in - links are just another file type,
like directories. :-) <f/x> smug.


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