On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: > > Those aren't hardlinks, but /tmp is a symlink to /private/tmp. Your > > vim just happens to realpath(3) before saving, it seems. > > It's not a symlink, they have the same inode number. > A symlink would look like this: >
Your observation would be valid if the file /tmp/whatever were symlinked. But it's not that specific file, but the directory /tmp that is symlinked. Naturally, anything within it is going to have the same inode number whether accessed via the symlink /tmp or the real path /private/tmp. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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