Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote:

> Roland Mainz wrote:
> >
> > Huh ? Could you please give further details on the relationship between
> > AT&T and hardlinks ?
> >   
> Just history.  Pre-SVr4, there were no symlinks in the AT&T primortial 
> UNIX.  They
> came from the SunOS4.x/SVr3 merge.

You could create symlinks in SVr3 but there was no lstat() in SVr3.

J?rg

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