[ On Thursday, July 10, 2003 at 15:51:11 (-0700), Greywolf wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: funlink() for fun!
>
> Thus spake Greg A. Woods ("GAW> ") sometime Today...
> 
> GAW> I was thinking more along the lines that /foo/bar/.. and /foo/bar refer
> GAW> to the same directory (assuming /foo/bar isn't a mount point)
> 
> Really?
> 
> cd /var/tmp/..
> 
> Where are you now? :)

Yes, well you knew what I meant.  :-)

> Well, yeah, of course; the point, though, which has been sidestepped here,
> is that you can't use a dev-ino to come up with a unique name, even though
> you can use a name to come up with a unique dev-ino pair.

Nothing's been sidestepped here.  Perhaps you've forgotten either one
of:  (a) the option of caching open filenames; or (b) the qualifier that
funlink() could/should fail/misbehave if the inode has multiple hard
links.

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