On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Gandhi woulda smacked you wrote:

> For example, I will assume that /root/.profile and /.profile were
> not hard-linked for a reason....

The reason is that your NetBSD install is broken. :-) These are
hard-linked in the distribution sets.

cjs
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