On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:40:29AM -0500, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
> Well, thinking the UNIX way is a little weird on it's own, but if by
> "weird" we mean "inconsistent," then you're spot on!

Inconsistent?  How so?  Being able to add or remove references (meaning,
primarily, hard links and file descriptors) to a file freely and then
releasing the associated disk space when the final reference has been removed
seems like the obvious and reasonable way to handle things to me.  And even
if it's not obvious or reasonable to you, it's still consistent.

Now, if you want inconsistency, try having tar handle a .bz2 archive...  Is
it -y, -I, -j, or has it changed again yet?

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