From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200311110230.hAB2UJg18931@cpu1.cs.usyd.edu.au> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: bruce@it.usyd.edu.au Subject: Re: [9fans] FS question Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:30:19 +1100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 860bf382-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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?