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From: David Feuer <David_Feuer@brown.edu>
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At 06:10 PM 11/16/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Here's one more: you can't rename across the binding boundary. They _are_
>mounts, so they avoid all that crap with loop creation on rename, etc.
>Take a generic DAG and try to implement rename() analog on it. Have fun
>catching the cases that would make the graph disconnected.

How could the graph become disconnected?  What does connectedness have to 
do with naming?

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