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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links
Message-ID: <6382@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 00:54:23 EDT
References: <8731@brl-adm.ARPA> <2789@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1781@munnari.oz> <2878@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1804@munnari.oz> <1254@mhres.mh.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1254@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
>No dot, no dot-dot, and directories have only one link ... Of course, you
>can access "." and ".." from system calls - it will do what you expect.

The interesting question is, if your system has or eventually will
have symbolic links to directories, then what WOULD you expect ".."
to mean?  Seems like the only thing it COULD mean is what Korn,
Krell, et al have proposed.