>On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:38:11AM -0800, Bryan Henderson wrote: >> >Other people are of the opinion that the invention of the symbolic link >> >was a huge mistake. >> >> I guess I haven't heard that one. What is the argument that we were >> better off without symbolic links? > >I suppose http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/lexnames.html is as good >a presentation of that argument as any ... Thanks. For those who didn't read it, this refers to the problem of ".." being ambiguous when there are many paths to a directory. I.e. it's about the ability of a symbolic link to link to a directory, not just a file (like a hard link). -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Filesystems - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
