Re: Question about hard links...

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 20:45:44 -0400

Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> said:

[...]

> It *doesn't* emulate the predicted behaviour. Learn what hardlinks
> are. Symlinks do not follow the file when it is renamed. Symlinks break
> when the file is removed. Sigh... UNIX 101 time again. Files are
> nameless.

[...]

> Hell, nobody mistakes the library catalog for bookshelf.
> Why does it become so hard with filesystems?

Because they started their hacking carrers on braindamaged filesystems? ;-)

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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