On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:36:12PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that James Howard remarked
> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> >
> > [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?
Probably the same reason most (all?) things in the base system that run
linked are hard links:
(ll -i | sort is instructive)
/sbin:
14445 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 150840 Oct 29 13:46 mount_mfs*
14445 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 150840 Oct 29 13:46 newfs*
(That's pretty cool, if mildly weird)
14442 -r-xr-xr-x 5 root wheel 59756 Oct 29 13:46 mount_devfs*
14442 -r-xr-xr-x 5 root wheel 59756 Oct 29 13:46 mount_fdesc*
14442 -r-xr-xr-x 5 root wheel 59756 Oct 29 13:46 mount_kernfs*
14442 -r-xr-xr-x 5 root wheel 59756 Oct 29 13:46 mount_procfs*
14442 -r-xr-xr-x 5 root wheel 59756 Oct 29 13:46 mount_std*
/bin:
124 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 48592 Oct 29 13:43 [*
124 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 48592 Oct 29 13:43 test*
Sendmail the same way (I can't show it since I have Postfix installed,
but...) (Ah, here's another system:)
430769 -r-sr-xr-x 5 root 7 290816 Nov 18 1998 /usr/bin/mailq*
430769 -r-sr-xr-x 5 root 7 290816 Nov 18 1998 /usr/bin/newaliases*
430769 -r-sr-xr-x 5 root 7 290816 Nov 18 1998 /usr/sbin/sendmail*
etc.
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