[Info-vax] "proper" ownership for high-level system files

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-02 00:47:57 +0000, David Froble said:

> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <m848qk$v5f$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> 
>>> The VMS$COMMON.DIR is an alias directory entry for all of the 
>>> [SYS*]SYSCOMMON.DIR directory entries present; that's all the same 
>>> directory, and the same files.
>> 
>> Right, but actually it's reversed: all of the [SYS*]SYSCOMMON.DIR are 
>> aliases for VMS$COMMON.DIR.
> 
> Yeah, I wondered about that.  It was my impression that VMS$COMMOM was 
> the primary directory, and others aliases.  Don't know where I got that 
> idea, it's been a long time.  I could easily be wrong.

On older systems.  On newer systems with hardlinks enabled, the concept 
of a primary directory is gone.


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