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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Symbolic links for 1.5 PC
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.133822.3822@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 19 Jun 91 13:38:22 GMT
References: <56346@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
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In article <56346@nigel.ee.udel.edu> v892231@si.hhs.nl (Edvard Tuinder) writes:
>I have taken a quick look at the sources and I noticed that this implementation
>still stuffs all the symlink info into the inode. This is rather tricky.
>At MUG-NET we have also taken Ken Staileys Symlinks, but we have changed it
>to be almost completely identical to the BSD-symlinks. This means that for each

The next version of Minix-386 (more vapourware, don't ask when :-) will use
Earl Chew's version of Stailey's symlinks. This was tested last year. The
only public version of it that I know about was for 1.6.15.
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au