On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM, <casper....@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
> In the very beginning, mkdir(1) was a set-uid application; it used
> "mknod" to make a directory and then created a link from
>        newdir to newdir/.
> and from
>        "." to newdir/..
>

Interesting, guess you learn something new every day :-)

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/mkdir.c

Thanks,

- Eric

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