From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 06:34:07 -0400 To: rminnich@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <32d9c93c2ea01194aa50b1b2546ec06d@kw.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <32ae739c22eb486931dd7bb207949f0e@swcp.com> <79c8278e45da12f71df95a90c8df246f@swcp.com> <5147DCD3-BD95-4D54-96B7-30DCA4D113DA@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Tvx update Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2bf009d8-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Anyway, what really stuck in my mind from Korn's post was his > characterization of symbolic links as a "non local goto", and I got > the impression from the "paper" that he was not enthusiastic about the > idea in general, much less the implementations. and, the whole idea breaks down unless there is a single, global namepace. - erik