inode number -> pathname? (4.2BSD)

larry at MITRE.ARPA larry at MITRE.ARPA
Sat Jul 13 06:35:45 AEST 1985


>write one to some people at DEC. Then I found that PIP command that
>allowed linking dirs (MCR PIP NEW=OLD/LI ?? trivia quiz.) I got ill
>and flamed about why they should hire computer scientists at least
>once in a while to help the VMS developers understand the
>differences between a tree and a cyclic graph (I still use this as
>an example when I teach data structures.)
>
>I blushed when I found it in UNIX, although I admit the discouragements
>are much more obvious.
>
>	-Barry Shein, Boston University

	Who ever said a directory stucture had to be a "TREE" ??

			-Larry.



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