From: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] FS question
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:47:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f43881d8d14afbbbb53b64d509a5651@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e323cbf7b4ac58703d2f1833f52202ac@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Sape said,
> Symbolic links came much later (in BSD if I remember correctly) and, in early
> symbolic links, a single data block would be sacrificed for storing the name linked
> to. The name was still not in the inode metadata.
Yes. Actually I was the first to implement symbolic links,
in a post-V7 system, but it was after CSRG (and their ARPA
oversight committee, of which I was a member) decided to
implement them. I sent the code to CSRG.
I argued at the time that two kinds of links was
one too many, and it would be good to get rid of
the hard links. Neither they nor we did this
in stock Unix, of course.
Dennis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-11 1:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-10 14:01 Brantley Coile
2003-11-10 15:07 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-10 17:14 ` Brantley Coile
2003-11-10 17:43 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-10 17:49 ` Sape Mullender
2003-11-11 1:47 ` Dennis Ritchie [this message]
2003-11-11 0:01 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-13 0:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-10 16:40 ` Rob Pike
2003-11-10 17:09 ` Brantley Coile
2003-11-10 17:39 ` ron minnich
2003-11-11 2:30 bruce
2003-11-11 10:26 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-11-11 12:28 ` Lucio De Re
2003-11-12 11:13 ` Boyd Roberts
2003-11-12 19:55 ` Andrew Simmons
2003-11-12 20:17 ` Brantley Coile
2003-11-12 21:18 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-12 21:16 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-13 9:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-11-13 16:47 ` Dan Cross
2003-11-14 6:49 Andrew Simmons
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