Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 17:38:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <20000302173823.S2905@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000301225919.16032B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> References: <20000302014342.B327@marder-1> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000301225919.16032B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 1 March 2000 at 23:00:50 -0600, David Scheidt wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:07:10AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> Just saw this on a NetBSD list. It looks like a good idea. We should >>> make sure that they don't implement it before we do. >>> >> >> :) Greg, can you nail down the year that symlinks first appeared in Unix? > > > HISTORY > An ln command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. The simplified > link command conforms to Version 2 of the Single UNIX > Specification. It's simpler than that: without links, there would be no files. The link just associates the directory entry with the inode. The only thing that UNIX added was a reference count, allowing multiple directory entries for a single file. That in itself was a stroke of genius, of course. > So ln(1) is coming up on its thirtieth birthday. > I don't remember when symlinks came into the picture. I'm pretty sure it was with ffs, which would have been 1982. Missed'em V didn't get them until V.4, effectively about 1989. When they finally got symlinks, they went mad with them. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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