* 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)



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