Re: Separate obj tree (really emacs and hard links)

[Gary Oberbrunner]

>>>>> "DA" == Doug Alcorn <address@hidden> writes:

 > In this manner (as per your quote from buffer.c), I think XEmacs
 > and Emacs handle hard links differently.  Does
 > find-file-existing-other-name really work in GNU Emacs for hard
 > links?  If so, I would expect XEmacs should at least have an
 > option for providing the same functionality.

then, quoting from the xemacs doc:

 | ...This works if any component of the pathname (including a non-
 | terminal component) is a symbolic link as well, but doesn't work 
 | with hard links (nothing does).

That last stmt is not true.  You *can* check if two files are the
same; just check the inode numbers with stat.  And sure enough, when I
try it on GNU Emacs, it does work.  Here's the message emacs gives me:

 ~/src/build/irix/final/spark-interface.c and ~/src/spark-interface.c are the 
same file

Looks like I won't be switching to xemacs any time soon!

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