Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!gatech!prism!dvu
From: dvu@prism.gatech.EDU (Dinh Vu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Two identical filenames in one directory!
Message-ID: <2203@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 2 Oct 89 01:40:17 GMT
References: <22@minya.UUCP> <705@lakart.UUCP>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Contrary to the popular believe, UNIX does NOT even allow 
superuser to write to a directory (only link, and unlink with
mknod).  Directory is just another file, but its inode indicates 
as a directory.

Dinh


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Dinh Vu 
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