Topi Miettinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Locating hard links with only ls -li or find -inum is inhuman task, > whereas any graphical file browser can easily show symlinks with > different icon, for example (I don't use them, so I don't know > whether they actually do so).
When do you need to know it's a hard link from a graphical browser? Or rather what would that information be good for? Note that the *only* time I can think of where you should care something's a hard link is when you're trying to copy or backup a directory, and then you should be using a tool smart enough to know how to handle it (see below). > Ok, which do you think is more common operation, deleting executables or > copying them? Which would some sysadmin consider a safe thing to do? Why wouldn't you be using tar or "cp -a" for the copy? Presumably you want to preserve permissions and ownership, and using these methods will also preserve the hardlinks. > Then there is consistency issue. Package X uses symlinks but package > Y hard links. What difference does this make? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
