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Re: symbolic links & `..' entry
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Thomas Bushnell BSG |
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Re: symbolic links & `..' entry |
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Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:47:48 -0800 |
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 11:55 +0600, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> Furthermore, some applications use symbolic links in rather
> unusual ways. E. g., Emacs uses symbolic links for file locks
> -- to store the identity of the user currently editing the file.
> This, however, is easy (in idea, not in implementation) to
> resolve: in Hurd, one might want to implement some new interface
> rather than working with the old one such an unclear way.
Of course, the only reason Emacs does this is that symlink(2) is one of
the few atomic test-and-set operations available to it which will
reliably work across a wide variety of systems.
Thomas
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- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, (continued)
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, olafBuddenhagen, 2007/02/03
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/04
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Shams, 2007/02/04
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/06
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/07
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/07
- symbolic links & `..' entry, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/08
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/08
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/10
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry,
Thomas Bushnell BSG <=
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/11
Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/03
Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, olafBuddenhagen, 2007/02/03