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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links
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Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 04:53:11 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 29 04:53:11 1987
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In article <126@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>The participants in the discussion seem to have no idea that this
>is a problem; they continue to argue about "the" meaning of "..".  

I find your condescending sneering at people trying to work out
a technical issue extremely inappropriate.

The participants in the discussion (before you entered) certainly
WERE aware of the only technical point you had to offer, and they
were not arguing about ""the" meaning of ".."".  The essential
problem is that the interpretation of ".." by the kernel namei()
code is necessarily deterministic -- that is what changes
multiple theoretically possible "meanings" into a particular
acual interpretation.  The issue is, and has been, what would be
the best choice among the (quite well understood) available
alternatives for the kernel behavior.  The dispute has been
essentially over the value metric for "best".

Perhaps it is YOU that have problems with the English language?