From: anothy@cosym.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 12:11:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011008161159.670D1199F3@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
// But the idea of a filename, booked into the filename space which says
//
// "I may not resolve all the time, but if I do, I point to <x>"
//
// Isn't so inherently evil to me.
it is to me. how do i know if it does or doesn't? what's the condition?
what's the behaviour if it doesn't? hell, what's the behaviour if it _does_
resolve? questions of whether to follow links or not... it's just never
seemed worth it. the _only_ time i've missed symlinks in Plan 9 is in
importing packages from elsewhere. this simpler version of what you
have above, which _wouldn't_ seem inherently evil to me, would be:
"I point to <x>, where x is a set of data."
much simpler, much easier to implement (uh, like, files?), much more
consistant, and thus easier to understand. even multiple hard links
under unix satisfy this: if it's there, it points to a certain set of data.
no condidtions on that.
// Pointing out M$ has .LNK isn't going to help my cause much is it
no, not likely. it's been a while since i've poked at any Windows box,
but under at least '95 and '98revA, drop into a shell prompt and try
to cat^Wtype foo.lnk. it's not even built into the FS, it's interpreted by
the tools, like explorer.
-α.
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