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Hi,

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:48:54PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:

> Not quite.  chdir() operates on a process and a directory; the pathname
> is necessary only to identify the directory.  It could equally well
> identify the directory by a file descriptor open on it, and that's
> exactly what fchdir() does.  truncate() operates on a file; the
> pathname is used merely to find the desired file.  It too could equally
> well identify the file by a file descriptor open on it, and that's
> exactly what ftruncate() does.
>=20
> However, unlink() does not operate on a file, except as a side effect;
> it operates on a link to a file.=20

Just what I wanted to write myself.
	-is

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