From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 16:12:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED7437B400 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b234.otenet.gr [212.205.244.242]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3KNCO5q005586; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 02:12:26 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3KNCP76004720; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 02:12:25 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3KNCMWF004719; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 02:12:22 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 02:12:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Todd Ross Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: two quick questions (man pages and tcsh) Message-ID: <20020420231218.GA4391@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020420133926.E841C37B41A@hub.freebsd.org> <20020420154955.GA1199@hades.hell.gr> <200204202308.g3KN4N8A004339@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200204202308.g3KN4N8A004339@hades.hell.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 On 2002-04-20 16:45, Todd Ross wrote: > [root@copper:/etc]> ls -lAF /.cshrc > -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 801 Mar 16 11:31 /.cshrc > [root@copper:/etc]> ls -lAF /root/.cshrc > -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 801 Mar 16 11:31 /root/.cshrc > > Is one a symlink to the other? From my amateur eyes, I'd say no. Does the > one in /root get sync'd with the one in / somehow? Hard links. Essentially the same file, appearing in two distinct places of the filesystem. Hard links point to the same i-node: [charon@hades ~]$ ls -li /.cshrc /root/.cshrc 41899 -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel - 1935 Mar 8 01:31 /.cshrc 41899 -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel - 1935 Mar 8 01:31 /root/.cshrc - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message