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• One of these things is not like the others!

• The name is not in the inode

• The name is in some directory

• So suppose we have this:

        ...
        MAKE_SLIDES          802886
        blookus              142857
        Makefile             802887
        woogums              142857
        ...

• Suppose one process opens woogums while one opens blookus?

• Once the files are open, the names are gone

• Only the inodes are available in the process

• The processes are talking to the same file

• If one process writes, the other will see the changes

• We have one file with two names

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