From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 7:20:33 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 22A4937B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5D543E81 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:20:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g78EJYO14151; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:19:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200208081419.g78EJYO14151@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: To: neuhauser@bellavista.cz (Roman Neuhauser) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:19:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister), grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey), Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com (Peter Leftwich), m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman), jeff@unixconsults.com (Jeff Jirsa), syborg@stny.rr.com (John Bleichert), FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD LIST) In-Reply-To: <20020808141523.GT281@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> from "Roman Neuhauser" at Aug 08, 2002 04:15:23 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > > > > > Because symlinks are wasteful and introduce problems. There are very > > > few reasons to ever symlink files in the same file system. > > > > Because symlinks make it abundantly clear what is linked to what. > > Hard links can lead to confusion. I suppose that's not a problem > > For most of you though. But, for example, if a person doesn't know > > which is linked to which, that person wouldn't know that more is > > really less. They might think less is really more (if they discovered > > it at all). > > No, less is not hardlinked to more, nor is more hardlinked to less. > They're two names for the same file. > > So... Yes, you're right: less is really more. But at the same time, > more is less. Yup. But was that file created as less or more and if I want to make a change do I start with the source for less or more, etc? Minor maybe, but ln -s makes it clear and is not so onerrous in most situations. ////jerry > > -- > FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE > 4:13PM up 1 day, 23:33, 11 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message