Le dimanche 12 février 2012 à 16:52 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit : > > Why hard links? Symlinks are much more introspectable. When looking at > > a hard link I have no easy way to know it's the same as whatever other > > file in the same directory. > > There actually *is* an easy way, in regular ls: look at the link count. > It comes out of ls -l by default, and if it's >1, there will be an > identical file.
This doesn't tell me which file it is, which is practically useless if I have both python3.3 and python3.2 in that directory. > If you look at the patch, you'll notice that the only change is to > make the links hard links. This begs the question: why? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
