Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 09:42:37 +1030 From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, Bakul Shah <bakul@torrentnet.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: removing enigma(1) Message-ID: <19991202094237.A78375@internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.991201163551.28343A-100000@frost.umd.edu> References: <19991201152633.K22444@futuresouth.com> <Pine.OSF.3.95q.991201163551.28343A-100000@frost.umd.edu>
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On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:36:12PM -0500, James Howard wrote:
> > Renaming?
> > [15:25:53] mortis:~
> > (ttyp9):{838}% ll -i `which crypt` `which enigma`
> > 23155 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4980 Oct 29 13:47 /usr/bin/crypt*
> > 23155 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4980 Oct 29 13:47 /usr/bin/enigma*
>
> Why is that a hard link instead of a symbolic link?
Hard links are faster, require no disk space, and don't consume any
extra inodes.
- mark
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