On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 06:41:43PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:37:48AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > > a) Create a file A > > > b) Create a symlink X->A > > > c) Create a hard link Y=X > > > d) Unlink a > > > e) Create a directory A > > Here is what happens. The semantics are really different. > [snip]
Please examine the behavior of link(2), not ln(1), as the latter may do additional things to confuse the situation. > > Is there some way in Linux to change the symlink target and have both > > (hardlinked) source names point to the new target? AFAIK no. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
