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On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 09:33:35PM +0100, kevin lyda mentioned:
> >  > apparently some systems limited soft links to the same device but
> >  > gave up after a while.  
> > Why?
> to make them consistent with hard links.

 That's something that POSIX would do - make every platform as equally
broken, rather than standing up and saying "how about we try & make
everyone better".

 (why ? Because in the real world, you can't. Somethings just suck)

Kate


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