src/namei/README.namei

   1 Tired of running into "Too many levels of symlinks" problems on
   2 your 4.2 BSD derivitive machine?
   3
   4 We sure did... our NFS'ed network of lots of Suns, Vaxen and so forth
   5 made it impossible at times to trace down where a file REALLY lived.
   6 I mean ls -l is nice, but wouldn't you like to follow things like
   7 the namei routine in the kernel does?
   8
   9 Well here it is.... the namei program.  It follows things out until
  10 a terminal state is found.
  11
  12 This program compiles and runs under:
  13
  14     SunOS 4.0.1 (sun3's)
  15     SunOS 4.0.3 (sun4's)
  16     SunOS 4.1.1 (sun4's)
  17     Ultrix 3.1
  18     BSD 4.3
  19
  20 and probably a host of other 4.2 derived systems (but probably not
  21 System V).
  22
  23 Anyway, if anyone has any bugs (or enhancements), please send them to
  24 me in E-mail form.
  25
  26 And, by the way, if you make LOTS of money off of this program, please
  27 don't tell me :-).
  28
  29     -Roger      (rogers@fangorn.wr.tek.com)
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