Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: WANTED: ""/filename == ./filename Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 91 16:41:37 GMT References: <2701@wn1.sci.kun.nl> <1991Jan30.192631.15514@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <18354@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Distribution: comp Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 31 Jan 91 08:42:34 GMT In article <18354@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes: (Unix makes this only usable from super-user mode.) I still maintain that this is correct, as soft links will allow for links to directories without creating the problems associated with hard links. If hard links to directories wind up in 2.0 and I'm right, taking them out will be nearly impossible. If I'm wrong and they don't wind up in 2.0, adding them in later will be easy. For that reason, I still wish that the facility not be in the ROM version. Come to think of it, the change doesn't have to be in ROM. If the MakeLink command won't link to a directory, and the appropriate OS calls are documented as having unpredictable results if a hard link to a directory is created, that should be sufficient for the present. A later WB upgrade can then replace MakeLink if I'm wrong.