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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Not the kind you have to wind up on Sunday)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A suggestion: .... == ../../..
Message-ID: <14678@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 19 Apr 88 17:56:28 GMT
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In article <1934@bgsuvax.UUCP> kutz@bgsuvax.UUCP (Kenneth Kutz) writes:
) Modify mkdir.
) This would seem to be only a matter of creating a third link (in addition
) to the 2 that get created now "." and "..") which would be "..." for
) grandparent etc.  This would require extra directory entries for the
) newly-created entries, one for each "parent" directory that exists.

So in directory /usr/users/matt/stuff I do "mkdir junk".  Quick,
what's the inode number for "....." in junk?

This is a bad idea all around.  Features for user convenience belong
in the shell.  Features from programmer convenience belong in a
subroutine library.
				Matt Crawford