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Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features


From: Pierre THIERRY
Subject: Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:24:10 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Scribit Shams dies 05/02/2007 hora 13:26:
> Does this mean that something like "cd .." or "ls .." will no work in 
> ngHurd?

It would just work in the way current systems work: it's not the FS but
the application that decides what .. is.

Try this on any available Unix with:

~$ mkdir -p a/b c/d
~$ cd c/d
~/c/d$ ln -s ../../a/b e
~/c/d$ cd e
~/c/d/e$ cd ..
~c/d$

According to .. in FS, you should now be in a/b. But currently, most
shells parse .. lexically.

Lexically,
Pierre
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