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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks.
Date: 13 Mar 93 23:33:19
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Mar13233319@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In-reply-to: thinman@netcom.com's message of Sun, 14 Mar 1993 07:08:20 GMT
In article <1993Mar14.070820.17710@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
>Symbolic links are GOTOs for file systems.
i think "#define"s are the better analogy...
but symlinks can recurse...
chris
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