On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 11:15:47AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 01:15:37PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > For one thing, it's non-portable. (IIRC, it will fail under hurd.) > > Can you explain the design reason for this? No. I can tell you empirically that hard links to symlinks work on some systems and fail on others. I think it's a sysV/BSD thing. Of the operating systems I have lying around, linux, solaris, irix, and unicos let you make a hard link to a symlink; AIX and "Tru64" (and, I've been told, hurd) will make the hard link to the symlink's target rather than to the symlink. I have no idea what a hard link to a symlink in a tar file would do on the latter group, and I'm not inclined to find out. Suffice it to say that this falls under the general category of "don't do that." -- Mike Stone
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