Two identical filenames in one directory!

Dinh Vu dvu at prism.gatech.EDU
Mon Oct 2 11:40:17 AEST 1989


Contrary to the popular believe, UNIX does NOT even allow 
superuser to write to a directory (only link, and unlink with
mknod).  Directory is just another file, but its inode indicates 
as a directory.

Dinh


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