Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: > Does this need a pronouncement? Worrying about the speed of symlinks > seems silly
I agree. I wonder if a hard-link was used for legacy reasons. Some very old versions of Unix didn't have symlinks. It looks like it was introduced in BSD 4.2, released in 1983. That seems a long time before the birth of Python but perhaps some SysV systems were around that didn't have it. Also, maybe speed was more of a concern at that time. In any case, those days are long, long gone. Neil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
