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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: mkdir plots (was: mkdir() and security hole)
Message-ID: <10785@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 88 15:12:59 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> <13306@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <13306@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>As quoted from <1849@piraat.cs.vu.nl> by maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath):
>+---------------
>| However, I think it very improbable that symbolic links exist on systems
>| WITHOUT the mkdir() system call.
>+---------------

Wrong ..

at some point AT&T started preparing SysV for integration of BSD stuff.
At (at least) SysVr3.1 the Official sources had symlink() as well
as the vnode stuff and a few other "berkeleyisms".
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