On July 19, niall at linux.ie said:
>> There are lots of benefits to using hard links, for all sorts of reasons. In
"...but there is insufficient room in the margin of this email to
describe them..." :)
> this case, they are being used to provide two quite different namespaces
> for the same set of files.
Sure, but soft links would do the same. To be honest, I'm trying to
think of a useful use of hard links right now, and I'm a little
stumped. There's gotta be some benefit that I'm missing that's
immediately obvious to everyone.
Cheers,
Waider.
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