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From: rearl@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Robert Earl)
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Subject: Re: Is Unix getting bloated with un-needed special cases?
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Date: 29 Apr 91 16:51:06 GMT
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In-reply-to: icsu7039@attila.cs.montana.edu's message of 29 Apr 91 16:24:26 GMT

Was the directory mounted across NFS?  If so, file operations like
this one on directories fail, as you pointed out.

--robert