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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: getcwd() and friends.
Message-ID: <11416@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 7 Apr 89 00:25:33 GMT
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In article <687@uva.UUCP> hm@uva.UUCP (Hans Mulder) writes:

>I am afraid that a symlink pointing to "../foo" would do very surprising
>things if the meaning of ".." were decided on a per-process basis....

And how do you feel when you're in /usr/include/sys and then "cd .."
to find yourself in /sys ? (I'm assuming the standard BSD configuration
where /usr/include/sys is a symbolic link to /sys/h).

We had a symbolic link war some time ago. Let's not restart the whole
thing again.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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