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From: kutz@bgsuvax.UUCP (Kenneth Kutz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A suggestion: .... == ../../..
Message-ID: <1939@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 88 20:38:32 GMT
References: <75@vertical.oz> <1934@bgsuvax.UUCP> <14678@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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In article <14678@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>, matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Not the kind you have to wind up on Sunday) writes:
: 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.
  
: This is a bad idea all around.  Features for user convenience belong
: in the shell.  Features from programmer convenience belong in a
: subroutine library.

mkdir(2) system call.  Not mkdir(1).



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