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From: vandys@Lindy.STANFORD.EDU (Andy Valencia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: symbolic links are a botch
Message-ID: <353@Lindy.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 11:35:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: Lindy.353
Posted: Thu Jun 11 11:35:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 10:30:00 EDT
References: <2629@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <390@murphy.UUCP> <898@rtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: vandys@Lindy.UUCP (Andy Valencia)
Organization: Stanford Information Technology Services
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Keywords: DAGs, DGs, Filesystems

In article <898@rtech.UUCP> jas@rtech.UUCP (Jim Shankland) writes:
>As soon as you do that, the file name space changes
>from a tree to a dag
                  ^^^

	Actually, it can have cycles (see ELOOP), so it's even
worse than you thought!  But until I can think up something more
satisfying, I'm not going to take pot shots at it.  After all, it
sure has come in handy on occasion.

					Andrew Valencia
					vandys@lindy.stanford.edu
					br.ajv@rlg.BITNET