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- Submitted-by: donn@hpfcrn.fc.hp.com (Donn Terry)
-
- 1) With respect to the question from Sean Fagan about symbolic links.
- All this is (supposedly, anyway) answered in the new version of
- pathname resolution in 2.3. Net result: it always follows the symlink.
- (The mental model is that instead of an i-number in a directory entry,
- you could have a name which is the body of the symbolic link.)
-
- 2) With respect to the question from "Cazier": POSIX.1 is completely silent
- about a shell, except to the extent that it brings in Standard C by
- reference, and Standard C refers to system(). (And the C definition
- of system() doesn't say much!) POSIX.1 is strictly from the C-language
- (currently) API point of view.
-
- Donn Terry
- (Speaking personally and only for myself.)
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 23
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-