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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.databases
Subject: Re: getcwd() and friends.
Message-ID: <3696@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 5 Apr 89 18:04:56 GMT
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In article <FLEE.89Apr4223010@shire.cs.psu.edu>, flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
> flink(), funlink(), and frename() are problematical because you also
> need descriptors to the directories involved, unless you attach
> knowledge of name and location to file descriptors.

Maybe funlink() and frename(), but flink() would just need the device an
inode number.

Hey, you're right. UNIX++ is gonna be pretty cool :->. It's looking more and
more like AmigaDOS. Now how about adding asynchronous I/O and using mapped
files to move SYSV's streams/queues into the file system...?
-- 
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