Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan M wrote:
> > I'm a little bit confused. According to the sources I've looked at on the
> > net,
> > os.link('file1', 'file2')
> > should make a hard link from file1 to file2. But what I'm finding is that
> > it's actually making a copy. Am I forgetting a step or something?
> >
> > Python 2.3.4 running on CentOS 4.3
>
> Are file1 and file2 on the same filesystem? Looks like os.link just
> calls the OS's link system call, which, for your system, might copy the
> file.
The link(2) system call on linux never does that. Eg
>>> import os
>>> file("z", "w").write("test")
>>> os.link("z", "/dev/shm/z")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link
>>
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