A suggestion: .... == ../../..

[David Goodenough]

>From article <319 at rhesus.primate.wisc.edu>, by bin at rhesus.primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral):
> From article <13087 at brl-adm.ARPA>, by rbj at icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim):
>> 
>> Not so! While `.' could possibly be removed from the file system (but then
>> how would you remove a file called `-r')...
> 
> Probably with "rm - -r".

Or if the current directory is foo:

	rm ../foo/-b

OOPS :-) That requires that .. still exist. Oh dear, can't have it all
ways! However this suggestion that ... be a synonym for ../..: could it
be implemented in the kernel? I mean, who turns a path name into an
i-node number anyway?
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