I thought it was: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
On Jun 20, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Greg Woodhouse wrote:
Files in Linux don't actually have names. Instead directories are a special kind of file (but not a special file!) containing a list of names, and for each name, what is called the inode for that file. You can think of it as a list (i.e., a "directory") of name/inode pairs. Anyway, every time a directory contains an entry like this, it is called a "hard link". You can have as many links as you want to a file (you create them with ln), but you should have to be root to link to directories because of the danger of creating loops. There is another kind of link, called a symbolic (or "soft") link, that is actually a file containing the name of the file it is a link to. In this sense, a link of this type is very much like a shortcut or .lnk file in Windows (though the file itself is hidden from you). You create these links with ln -S. "The most profound technologies are those that disappear." --Mark Weiser ==== Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
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