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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: WANTED: ""/filename == ./filename
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Date: 31 Jan 91 18:56:08 GMT
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In article <18354@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>Be careful with links to directories, particularily self-referential ones.
>(Unix makes this only usable from super-user mode.)

Or symbolic links to a parent directory.  Which UNIX doesn't handle
very well either.       -- Darren, the bitten one
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