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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,comp.bugs.sys5,comp.bugs.misc
Subject: Re: mkdir plots (was: mkdir() and security hole)
Message-ID: <13306@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 88 00:09:41 GMT
References: <871@husc6.harvard.edu> <9466@merch.TANDY.COM> <851@husc6.harvard.edu> <10845@swan.ulowell.edu> <876@husc6.harvard.edu> <1849@piraat.cs.vu.nl>
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As quoted from <1849@piraat.cs.vu.nl> by maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath):
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| However, I think it very improbable that symbolic links exist on systems
| WITHOUT the mkdir() system call.
+---------------

Wrong.  I have seen Xenixes and SVR2's which lack mkdir() but have symlink().
It's usually added with some form of networking, for which its use is
intended.

++Brandon
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