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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:19:19 +0200

> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:06:44 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Stuart D. Herring" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > 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).

I don't see any real difference: in both cases, two file names point
to the same data, i.e. the file can be referenced by more than one
name.




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