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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!uwm.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!thinman From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks. Message-ID: <1993Mar14.070820.17710@netcom.com> Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom References: <JKH.93Mar9214944@whisker.lotus.ie> <C3ow4H.FID@BitBlocks.com> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 07:08:20 GMT Lines: 12 Symbolic links are GOTOs for file systems. I hate them in my programs, and I hate them on my machine. NFS and symbolic links especially don't mix: think about a GOTO from one program into another! -- Lance Norskog thinman@netcom.com Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.