Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!mcrware!kim
From: kim@mcrware.UUCP (Kim Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: More on 253 error...
Message-ID: <1499@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 90 11:58:55 GMT
References: <785938944@andrew.cmu.edu+ <155400003@recco+
Reply-To: kim@mcrware.UUCP (Kim Kempf)
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Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <155400003@recco+ weo@recco.chi.sub.org (Wolfgang Ocker) writes:
<< blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) writes ( 8:10 pm  Jan 22, 1990 in recco:comp.os.os9): 
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<< The rest of doing hard links is pretty easy to impliment, as I've done
<< in my public domain ln/mv for os9.  
<
<Unfortunately hard links are nearly useless in the current version of
<OSK RBF. It's impossible to remove (delete) a file (name) out of a
<directory when a path is open on the file itself. So this "feature" of
<the RBF is only useful when "moving" files/directories around in the
<directory structure (but it has nothing to do with UNIX hard links).

As Bob pointed out, hardlinks can be supported by OSK RBF, proved by his
ln and mv utilities (and are quite useful).  The fact that OSK RBF refuses
to allow deletion of open files is certainly a topic for consideration, but
it has nothing to do at all with hardlinks.  "Moving" files/directories
around is the intent of hardlinks even in UNIX.  In fact, I see no reason
why mv/ln would not work on open files.  Bob?
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Kim Kempf, Microware Systems Corporation	{sun,uunet}!mcrware!kim
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