From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 1 15:16: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gizmo.internode.com.au (gizmo.internode.com.au [192.83.231.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FFEB14E1C for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:16:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from newton@gizmo.internode.com.au) Received: (from newton@localhost) by gizmo.internode.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA78394; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 09:42:37 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from newton) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 09:42:37 +1030 From: Mark Newton To: James Howard Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , Bakul Shah , Steve Kargl , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: removing enigma(1) Message-ID: <19991202094237.A78375@internode.com.au> References: <19991201152633.K22444@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://www.on.net/~newton/pgpkey.txt Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message