The link count for autobot and a1 will be 2; each name references the same file
on disk. The symbolic link, however, is a pointer to a name. You can replace
the file autobot without affecting a2, but if you replace autobot (rm autobot;
make autobot) you will find that the connection between auto
On Apr 25, 2011, at 22:27, David Chapman wrote:
> On 4/25/2011 7:38 PM, richard Cavell wrote:
>> Further experimentation shows that symbolic links work (ln -s autobot a for
>> the first command). Are hard links supposed to work?
>
> The hard link simply creates a new name for the file, which is
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- Original Message -
From: richard Cavell
Sent: 04/26/11 10:36 AM
To: users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: How to create a link that works between OS X and Ubuntu
Hi everyone. I'm developing a program on Ubuntu 10.10. The
directory in which my pr
Further experimentation shows that symbolic links work (ln -s autobot a for the
first command). Are hard links supposed to work?
Richard
- Original Message -
From: richard Cavell
Sent: 04/26/11 10:36 AM
To: users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: How to create a link that works between OS
