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From: ftw@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: system (and popen)
Message-ID: <102600038@datacube>
Date: 11 Feb 88 15:51:00 GMT
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Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!ftw    Feb 11 10:51:00 1988


gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP writes:

> Because, if the links weren't done right, the directory hierarchy could
> be turned into a royal mess.

Ah, yes.  It's amazing how quickly our Pyramid came to its knees when I was
in the Sys V universe, ran a program with a defective "mkdir()", and then
tried to use the newly created directory...


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