* Chris Moore (2007-01-04 10:45 +0100) said: ^^^^^^^^^^^ > On 1/4/07, Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It turns out all hard links will be deleted after user log off. The >> file system is: `type ncpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)' as I am running >> Emacs on my Univ's server. > >> Is there any reason to choose hard link over symbolic link? > > All regular files are hard links. A hard link is just a name for a > file on disk. "emacs" is one name for the executable and > "emacs-22.0.92" is another name for the same executable. There's no > concept of one being a link to the other, they are both names for > the same file on disk. If "all hard links" are deleted, then both > "emacs" and "emacs-22.0.92" will be deleted, along with all your > other files.
Then I don't know what's going on. 'emacs' is deleted but 'emacs-22.0.92' is not. Any other files I created using 'ln' will also be deleted. -- Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F) _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
