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From: zink@bunker.UUCP (David Zink)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: symbolic links are a botch
Message-ID: <2259@bunker.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 12:18:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: bunker.2259
Posted: Mon Jun 29 12:18:57 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Jun-87 06:10:47 EDT
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Reply-To: zink@bunker.UUCP (David Zink)
Organization: Bunker Ramo an Olivetti Company, Shelton CT
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In article <6036@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
]In article <2250@bunker.UUCP> zink@bunker.UUCP (David Zink) writes:
]>Nuff said?
]
]Far too much for a message with zero information content.
]If you have a valid technical point to make, make it, but
]just trying to be cute is not appreciated.

Sorry, I usually have ~30 mins/week to read and respond to EMAIL news etc.
and I get a little hot about things like people considering changing the
kernal to support strange interpretation of '..'. The information content
Intended was that because symlinks are used to cross filesystems '..'-as-last
part-of-however-we-got-here can become meaningless.  This cannot happen
under the current implementation. Will this create new problems? I also
expect that the correct Unix way to handle the problem would be to
make it illegal to umount a device that has been cd'ed through.  I have yet
to see a well thought out proposal on the subject so I assume we are in the
throw out possible objections before we have to start whining at ATTETC that
they overlooked things.

I also should have kindly pointed out that UNIX doesn't even have a current
working directory concept, but a current working inode, which is nice because
it helps the guru's to be able to patch things up without having to bring the
system down.

And I use silly examples instead of just describing ideas because they are
less open to {mis,}interpretation. Just imagine typing them in and watch
them perform.

I agree I could have used better judgement in the choice of directory names,
but I didn't.

Too much said?