Two identical filenames in one directory!

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <8909300118.AA09366 at beaches.hub.toronto.edu> thomson at hub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson) writes:
>Hmm.  In my ongoing effort to further the cause of picking nits,
>I offer the following:
>
>1) In both V6 and V7, root is able to write a newly creat()'ed directory.
>   This is how mkdir used to make the . and .. entries.

mkdir creates those entries with mknod, not write.  In fact, mkdir
doesn't create() directories, it mknod()s all of the entries.  Only
the low 9 bits of the file mode are honored by create, to get the
other 7 bits you have to use mknod().
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