A hard link to a file is indistinguishable from the original directory entry;
any changes to a file are effectively independent of the name used to reference
the file. Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span
file systems.
A symbolic link contains the name of the file to which it is linked. The
referenced file is used when an open(2) operation is performed on the
link. A stat(2) on a symbolic link will return the linked-to file; an
lstat(2) must be done to obtain information about the link. The
readlink(2) call may be used to read the contents of a symbolic link.
Symbolic links may span file systems and may refer to directories.
Junctions, the closest thing windows prior to 2008 has to links, is more
like a hardlink than a soft link but is only valid for directories.
Regards
Steve
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From: "James McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What's a hardlink?
I'm using Windows.
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