Steve McIntyre wrote: > In article <49c8dcdb.90...@beeznest.net> you write: > >> Before the upgrade, the file is a hardlink (because I hardlinked it >> manually), then it tries to upgrade the file/hardlink. Does it "break" >> the hardlink* before upgrading the file or does it overwrite the >> file/hardlink and all of its "siblings"? >> >> * because it knows it is supposed to be a plain file, and it no longer is. >> > > Your language suggests that you don't understand how hard links > work. A hard link to a file *is* a plain file. > > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link for some explanation. > > Of course I know what a hardlink is. I'm not native in English, and even tried to find the right words on the Net before writing, but I couldn't find better ones.
The question here is: which one is the hardlink to the other? :-P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
