(was slashes, now NFS devices)

[Eduardo Krell]

In article <1991Feb24.041451.13769 at chinet.chi.il.us> les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:

>Unless you want to run diskless on the local machine, in which case
>the local machine needs somewhere to put the names of its own devices.

yes, I'm aware of this. But it seems like a poor excuse to do it the other
way. I agree that there should be a way of telling the server to interpret
special files remotely or locally. How about symbolic links? Should absolute
symbolic links be always interpreted on the client? the server? why?
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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