Re: [Pkg-grass-general] Re: Bug#264566: Any progress on grass 5.7?
On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 17:24, Hamish wrote:
> > package-contains-hardlink
> > Nothing can be done about these I think. All the grass binaries are
> > hard-linked together. There is one binary that decides what to do
> > based on the name it's called with.
>
>
> Just to note the "all" is not correct. These days most of the stuff in
> $GISBASE/bin/ is softlinked, but there are a few oddballs still
> hardlinked.
When I invoke "ls -i" in /usr/lib/grass57/bin all the files(with the
exception of nviz and tcltkgrass) have the same inode number. I take
that to mean they are hardlinked. I have investigated the source and
this is central to how grass handles calls to its modules.
Steve
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