getcwd() and friends.

[Peter da Silva]

In article <FLEE.89Apr4223010 at shire.cs.psu.edu>, flee at shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
> flink(), funlink(), and frename() are problematical because you also
> need descriptors to the directories involved, unless you attach
> knowledge of name and location to file descriptors.

Maybe funlink() and frename(), but flink() would just need the device an
inode number.

Hey, you're right. UNIX++ is gonna be pretty cool :->. It's looking more and
more like AmigaDOS. Now how about adding asynchronous I/O and using mapped
files to move SYSV's streams/queues into the file system...?
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