Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!cfisun!lakart!dg
From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A suggestion: .... == ../../..
Message-ID: <67@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 88 13:48:15 GMT
References: <319@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu>
Organization: Lake - The systems people
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From article <319@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu>, by bin@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral):
> From article <13087@brl-adm.ARPA>, by rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim):
>> 
>> Not so! While `.' could possibly be removed from the file system (but then
>> how would you remove a file called `-r')...
> 
> Probably with "rm - -r".

Or if the current directory is foo:

	rm ../foo/-b

OOPS :-) That requires that .. still exist. Oh dear, can't have it all
ways! However this suggestion that ... be a synonym for ../..: could it
be implemented in the kernel? I mean, who turns a path name into an
i-node number anyway?
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