From: Ronan Waide (waider at domain waider.ie)
Date: Fri 19 Jul 2002 - 18:10:49 IST
On July 19, niall at domain 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.
-- waider at domain waider.ie / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me. merde says, "in other news, our mini-blimp blew away."
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