From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,96296bb60aa5db9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Directories Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:35:25 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1192912525.922514.185180@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <1o4hp0vtlenw0.jql7yewhhr4a.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.3.87.193 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1192912526 18638 127.0.0.1 (20 Oct 2007 20:35:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:35:26 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1o4hp0vtlenw0.jql7yewhhr4a.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.3.87.193; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2516 Date: 2007-10-20T13:35:25-07:00 List-Id: On 20 Pa , 21:40, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote: > 2. Why Full_Name of the Directory_Entry corresponding to ".." does not > render the true name of? Can the same file have different full names? Of course. They are usually called "links". Add "mount points" and the game is even more funny. In general, there is no such a thing as a "true name" of a file and if there are many there is often no way to assign different priorities for them. It's a feature. Most of the time. -- Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com