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Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features
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Pierre THIERRY |
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Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features |
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Wed, 7 Feb 2007 22:33:52 +0100 |
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Scribit Ivan Shmakov dies 08/02/2007 hora 02:02:
> Yes, shells oftenly do that. Note, however, that almost every
> other program isn't so smart:
>
> $ mkdir -p a/b c/d
> $ cd c/d
> c/d $ ln -s ../../a/b e
> c/d $ cd e
> c/d/e $ ls ../
> b
> c/d/e $
>
> Would `ls' parse `..' by itself, `e' would have been shown
> instead.
>
> And again, I'm not about to /deny/ such ``lexical''
> interpretation of `..', but it's not clear to me, which benefits
> it would bring (or, which things it would break?)
The benefit seems obvious to me from your example: it would make
symlinks a less leaky abstraction. And I'm curious where the current
behaviour ls exhibits here is needed.
Abstractly,
Pierre
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- Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Shams, 2007/02/01
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/03
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Shams, 2007/02/03
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, olafBuddenhagen, 2007/02/03
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/04
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Shams, 2007/02/04
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/06
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/07
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features,
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- symbolic links & `..' entry, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/08
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/08
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/10
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2007/02/10
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/11
Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/03
Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, olafBuddenhagen, 2007/02/03