On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogs...@pobox.com> wrote:
> /etc/*link was just a slightly safer way to accomplish this and in my > opinion was intended to fix filesystem corruption not as a supported > interface for general use. It *did* have a general use, though: ln was, even then, a bit too "user friendly" to make hardlink-style lock files safely. (I got familiar with link/unlink because of a buggy kernel building script, provided by the OS vendor, that if invoked in a certain "obvious" way would ultimately run "ld -o .. config.o ...". "oops") -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
_______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
