22 Mar
2016
22 Mar
'16
11:21 a.m.
On Mar 18, 2016 1:02 PM, "Pat Barron" <patbarron(a)acm.org> wrote:
Even as late as V7, "." and ".."
were not automatically added to
directories when created - the "mkdir"
program used mknod() to create the
directory, and then created the links for "." and ".." by itself.
Is that the last Unix that had a major number for file system objects? I
hadn't run into this but, thinking about it, it's kinda smart (probably
slower than specific execve kernel calls but still cool).