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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] FS question
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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:26:24 +1100
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that's not me.  just in case you guys thought i'd gone into IT.

brucee
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From: <bruce@it.usyd.edu.au>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] FS question


> If a file could be removed but still remain accessible
> (via an open file descriptor) then that might suggest an implementation
> where the file was distinct from its name.  Once that separation
> existed then it might have been thought interesting to allow
> multiple names for the same file.
>
> What did Multics do?
> ken?