Tried that.  Bought the OS. :-)

Seriously, though, "ls -Li" produces no different results.

The symlink thing has been explained to me; I'm still at a loss as to why
directories which also happen to be mountpoints are all listed as inode 2
when, WRT the directory in which they happen to live, this would be actually
incorrect.

Take for example /usr.  In /, the entry "usr" should have a different
inum than usr/. and usr/..; this is shown when on most other systems
one does "ls -i /" versus "ls -id /usr".

I'm mostly curious as to what happened with this; having grown up on
systems who all behaved this way (4.[1-3] VAXen, 3.x and 4.x SunOS (BSD
derivatives), A/UX, System V/[68]8 on Motorola, UniPlus (SVR[23] with
BSD additions) and the like), the change appears to my eyes to be a bug.

I don't mean to start unnecessary conversation or waste bandwidth by
misfiling things that were meant to be done; they just seem strange
to me, and changing a paradigm which has been alive for ten years is,
as most of you know, a difficult thing to do.


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