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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: POSIX and symbolic links ????
Date: 6 Nov 1994 16:04:50 -0500
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Date: 1994-11-06T16:04:50-05:00
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In a way it is a shame if a program *can* detect a symbolic link, because
then it means that symbolic links would not be transparent, and the great
attraction of this facility is precisely the transparency.