Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:19:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: neuhauser@bellavista.cz (Roman Neuhauser) Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister), grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey), Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com (Peter Leftwich), m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman), jeff@unixconsults.com (Jeff Jirsa), syborg@stny.rr.com (John Bleichert), FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD LIST) Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: Message-ID: <200208081419.g78EJYO14151@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020808141523.GT281@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> from "Roman Neuhauser" at Aug 08, 2002 04:15:23 PM
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> > > > > > Because symlinks are wasteful and introduce problems. There are very > > > few reasons to ever symlink files in the same file system. > > > > Because symlinks make it abundantly clear what is linked to what. > > Hard links can lead to confusion. I suppose that's not a problem > > For most of you though. But, for example, if a person doesn't know > > which is linked to which, that person wouldn't know that more is > > really less. They might think less is really more (if they discovered > > it at all). > > No, less is not hardlinked to more, nor is more hardlinked to less. > They're two names for the same file. > > So... Yes, you're right: less is really more. But at the same time, > more is less. Yup. But was that file created as less or more and if I want to make a change do I start with the source for less or more, etc? Minor maybe, but ln -s makes it clear and is not so onerrous in most situations. ////jerry > > -- > FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE > 4:13PM up 1 day, 23:33, 11 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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