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lyso on Oct 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rob Pike comments on Ryan Dahl's rant

It's mitigated in that you can't hard link a directory (except in recent MacOS). So I suppose you would always know the real cwd of your shell, for instance.

protomyth on Oct 5, 2011 [–]

adding OS X hard link discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80875/what-is-the-bash-co...

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