A suggestion: .... == ../../..
Kenneth Kutz
kutz at bgsuvax.UUCP
Wed Apr 20 06:38:32 AEST 1988
In article <14678 at oddjob.UChicago.EDU>, matt at oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Not the kind you have to wind up on Sunday) writes:
: In article <1934 at bgsuvax.UUCP> kutz at bgsuvax.UUCP (Kenneth Kutz) writes:
: ) Modify mkdir.
: ) This would seem to be only a matter of creating a third link (in addition
: ) to the 2 that get created now "." and "..") which would be "..." for
: ) grandparent etc. This would require extra directory entries for the
: ) newly-created entries, one for each "parent" directory that exists.
: This is a bad idea all around. Features for user convenience belong
: in the shell. Features from programmer convenience belong in a
: subroutine library.
mkdir(2) system call. Not mkdir(1).
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