From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 18:43: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6F537B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.webmailer.de (natwar.webmailer.de [192.67.198.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D9443E5E for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smazerski@yahoo.co.jp) Received: from ianb.local (pD9EB1327.dip.t-dialin.net [217.235.19.39]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA25964 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 03:42:57 +0200 (MEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Steve Mazerski To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why hard, not soft links? Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 03:44:27 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200208030344.27552.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD makes frequent use of hard links instead of soft links when defining "alternative" names for commands and other files? e.g. /usr/bin/nvi and /usr/bin/vi are the same file. Linux distros tend to use soft links for the same thing. Just wondering S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message