From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 23:40:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30DD615481 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 23:40:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA89308 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 23:39:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37D36186.396A899F@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:39:02 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0904 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why hard links for /.cshrc and /.profile ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Working on the next version of mergemaster I'm fixing the problem of /.cshrc and /.profile being hard links to their counterparts in /root. I'm aware of the reasons to link the files in the first place, however I'm a little fuzzy on the reasons that they are _hard_ links, as opposed to soft links. Completely aside from the fact that soft links would make _my_ life easier, does anyone know the hysterical raisins for the current behavior? I'd like to put a blurb about it in the mm manpage if nothing else. Thanks, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message