From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX Backslash History
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:51:44 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191028155144.ACBAB18C07E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Charles Anthony
>> I think it was >user_dir_dir>Group>User, wasn't it?
> user_dir_dir>Project>User
Oh, right. Too many years spent on Unix! :-)
> "Names" are aliases, similar to soft links
I feel like they are more similar to hard links; they belong to a segment, and
if the name is given to another segment, and the original segment has only
that name, it goes away. (See the discussion under "add_name" in the MPM
'Commands and Active Fuinctions'). Also, Multics does real soft links (too),
so names can't be soft links! :-)
Noel
next reply other threads:[~2019-10-28 15:52 UTC|newest]
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2019-10-28 15:51 Noel Chiappa [this message]
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2019-10-27 21:31 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-27 21:51 ` Charles Anthony
2019-10-27 20:31 Doug McIlroy
2019-10-27 20:42 ` Richard Salz
2019-10-27 20:49 ` Charles Anthony
2019-10-27 23:01 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-10-28 1:11 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-10-28 12:00 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-28 13:44 ` Clem Cole
2019-10-28 15:08 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-10-28 18:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-28 20:43 ` Paul Winalski
2019-10-27 20:46 ` Bakul Shah
2019-10-28 17:36 ` Anthony Martin
2019-10-28 18:17 ` Charles Anthony
2019-10-26 9:39 Caipenghui
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