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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: symbolic links
Message-ID: <6026@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 09:24:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 25 09:24:17 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: symbolic links

In article <1101@mtune.ATT.COM> jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) writes:
>... I realize that the kernel would then have to keep
>track of where you are in the file system, that's unfortunate.

The kernel has to do this anyway, in order to resolve relative
pathnames during an open().