site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) Justin C. Walker wrote: The idea is that you can refer to the collection of bytes that works out to "hello world\n" by the name 'foop' and I can refer to it as 'goop', and we really don't know that those two different names are the same file (unless we do some detective work (using 'ls')). If you type "ls -lL foop", you get the information about the file; the name remains the same because that is how you refer to it. I'd suggest everyone who thinks this is confusing read the stat(2) manpage and consider that without -L lstat is used, but with it stat is. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com