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From: Borja Marcos <BORJAMAR@SARENET.ES>
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Subject: Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects
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> That maybe the case but does rm -f <file> remove all copies?
> Nope so its behaviour is safe even with multiple hardlinks.

No. rm unlinks a file from a directory. If the file had no more  
links, it is deleted as well.

There's no surprise at all on the behavior of rm with hard links.





Borja.