16 Dec
2002
16 Dec
'02
23:10
On Monday 16 December 2002 22:52, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 16 December 2002 22.33, John Andersen wrote:
And thinking of a link as a file is NOT correct. Its just another pointer to a file, essentially another directory entry pointing to the file,
Not a symlink. A symlink has its own inode. A hard link is "just another directory entry" but a symlink is more. That's why you can have symlinks to files on other partitions but not hard links.
OK, so when 'should' we use a hardlink, and when 'should' we use a symlink? Dylan -- "Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not, we are Between the wars"