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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:23:36 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
To:        "Eugene L. Vorokov" <vel@bugz.infotecs.ru>
Cc:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Re: Why is csh tcsh?  This can be a bad thing...
Message-ID:  <20010824121953.K43940-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
In-Reply-To: <200108241002.f7OA23m01583@bugz.infotecs.ru>

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On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote:

ELV>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:45:48PM +0400, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote:
ELV>> > > > It's kinda late in the process to be complaining about this, but I just noticed this myself...
ELV>> >
ELV>> > Why not just symlink csh to tcsh then ?
ELV>>
ELV>> Because csh is hardlinked to tcsh instead.
ELV>
ELV>Oh well, I missed that. But I think symlink would do just the same,
ELV>but it would be more obvious for user that csh is now the same thing
ELV>as tcsh. Is there any situation where symlink would not do the job
ELV>but hardlink would ?

Probably not, but a hard link is faster (just for the case when invoking
csh is the bottleneck in your application :-) And the symbolic link costs
you an i-node.

harti
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