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Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.


From: Stuart D. Herring
Subject: Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:06:44 -0800 (PST)
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>> Having different file names map to the same file is a recipe for
>> trouble.
>
> Then links are a recipe for trouble.

The parallel isn't perfect: what David is really describing is having two
different strings map onto the same directory entry (or, as it has been
labelled elsewhere in the thread, the same [canonicalized] file name). 
Links don't do that; they map directory entries onto files (of course).

Davis

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