Two identical filenames in one directory!

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <17076 at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org I wrote -
>mkdir creates those entries with mknod, not write.  In fact, mkdir
>doesn't create() directories, it mknod()s all of the entries.  Only
>the low 9 bits of the file mode are honored by create, to get the
>other 7 bits you have to use mknod().

Yeh, yeh, yeh.  I screwed up.

mkdir creates the original directory entry with mknod().  The entries
for "." and ".." are both created with link().

Thanks to Guy Harris for pointing this out.
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