Organizing UNIX directories as lattices

  • Authors:

  • Carl Ponder

  • Affiliations:

  • IBM Microelectronics Division, 11400 Burnet Road, M/S 4329, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

UNIX supports tree-structured directories. However, an alternative lattice-structure can be built within the UNIX conventions, using symbolic-links, shell functionality, and the semantics of the ls command. An extension of the ".." convention distinguishes between parent-directories.