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Quote: use creator as the accurate path name to a file; avoids problems with mounts and symbolic links
Topic:
file directory
Topic:
information retrieval by following links
Quotation Skeleton
Symbolic links make the Unix file system non-hierarchical, … confusion, especially since some shells work overtime to … while other programs and the kernel itself do … Plan 9 has no symbolic links but it … ['bind' and 'mount' operators] that produce the same difficulty. … To address these problems, the Plan 9 kernel … [maintains] an accurate path name for every active … that the path name of a file is … [the file]. … [p. 88] The parent of a directory X, X/.., … [stripped] away the last path name element of X. Google-1 Google-2
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Topic: file directory (42 items)
Topic: information retrieval by following links (23 items)