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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: symbolic links are a botch
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Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 14:44:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  3 14:44:59 1987
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> ... With /proc, /n/face, and other oddball types of file system,
> it is rapidly becoming necessary to find some other way to record the
> "current working directory"...

V8 /proc preserves the semantics of a normal Unix directory setup *exactly*,
unless I missed something subtle when I read the code.  My impression is that
/n/face does likewise.  In both cases the directory hierarchy is actually a
figment of the kernel's imagination, but it is a consistent figment with the
same semantics as normal directories.
-- 
Mars must wait -- we have un-         Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
finished business on the Moon.     {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry