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From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks.
Message-ID: <1993Mar14.070820.17710@netcom.com>
Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom
References: <JKH.93Mar9214944@whisker.lotus.ie> <C3ow4H.FID@BitBlocks.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 07:08:20 GMT
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Symbolic links are GOTOs for file systems.

I hate them in my programs, and I hate them on my machine.

NFS and symbolic links especially don't mix:
think about a GOTO from one program into another!

-- 

Lance Norskog
thinman@netcom.com
Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.