On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogs...@pobox.com> wrote:

> I think you are thinking of /bin/ln which was how normal users were
> supposed to make
> links to files (with /bin/rm being the way to remove them)
>

Just to repeat what you claim to be replying to: "ln was, even then, a bit
too "user friendly" to make hardlink-style lock files safely." In what way
does that indicate that I have confused /etc/link with /bin/ln?

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