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From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Confused file name in directory
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Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 17:25:26 EST
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I like Chris Torek's idea on this one: change the directory to a
regular file, edit the `file', change it back to a directory, and
voila! So I propose ioctls to convert the inode of any open file to
any known type (consider the ramifications of converting a text file
to a symbolic link). This would also handle a problem I've always
wanted to solve: making a link to a given numbered inode.

Yow! Have I lost my mind? Is this heresy?

	(Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
	Why did Paul Simon name his album after Elvis Presley's house?