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* Re: [9fans] FS question
@ 2003-11-11  2:30 bruce
  2003-11-11 10:26 ` Bruce Ellis
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: bruce @ 2003-11-11  2:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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?


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2003-11-11  2:30 [9fans] FS question 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  0:34           ` [9fans] Bruce Michael Baldwin
2003-11-13  9:32           ` [9fans] FS question Skip Tavakkolian
2003-11-13 16:47             ` Dan Cross
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2003-11-13 22:46 ` [9fans] Bruce Bruce Ellis

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