Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 1997 01:45:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | Todd Graham Lewis <> | Subject | Re: happiness and joy w/ 2.1.47 (or problems w/ access()) |
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On 27 Jul 1997, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This behaviour (together with the "." and ".." handling) is actually > all very orthogonal if you look at it the right way: think of the slash > as just a separator in the name space, not as a "directory" thing, and > "." and ".." as just ways to move in the name space rather than in a > "directory hierarchy".
C.f., RFC 1035, s/\./\//g.
-- Todd Graham Lewis Manager of Web Engineering MindSpring Enterprises (800) 719-4664, x2804 Linux! tlewis@mindspring.net
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