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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
Date: Thu,  8 Nov 2001 10:38:51 +0000
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forsyth@vitanuova.com writes:

> no, there aren't, or certainly not in any sense that unix might have
> used the term.  that's part of the confusion.  the file server
> provides a strict tree.  full stop.  there are no links there.

A link, in Unix, is the mapping from a directory name to a file.

It is *not* only that thing that the unlearned call a "hard link" or a
"soft link".  A link exists even if there is only one name for the
file: that one name is the link.