On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> I think Ron was referring to Korn's 1987 usenet posting, > where Korn said "the implementation of symbolic links on BSD > Unix is a botch". Uh oh. Is my memory really that bad? Cart me off to the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers! Do I get the room next to Eugene Miya? Anyway, what really stuck in my mind from Korn's post was his characterization of symbolic links as a "non local goto", and I got the impression from the "paper" that he was not enthusiastic about the idea in general, much less the implementations. Thanks ron
