Thank you for the additional info. I knew quite a bit about symlinks
before... although you told me even more information about them I did not
know... one thing I never did know until now was how to create them.

I will attempt to make sure this symlink functions properly and does not
cause any undesirable behavior, like the original libhpi.so.10 (I forgot to
mention it was a mistype I said "0" but it really was "10") getting deleted
because of the symlink getting deleted/corrupted. I may even back it up on
a separate hard drive.

Thanks again everyone for your help!



On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Fred Gleason <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Dec 13, 2011, at 09:10 44, Cowboy wrote:
>
> > A file on *nix is not deleted until the last handle is released.
> > That handle always references a hard link.
> > Once the last hard link is deleted, the file itself is marked
> > as available disc space.
>
> Thanks for the clarification, Cowboy.  This behavior in particular is key
> to making certain features in Rivendell work properly.  It's the main
> reason why M$ systems (and M$-centric systems such as Samba) are not
> suitable for hosting the RD audio store at /var/snd.
>
> Cheers!
>
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