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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla build-config --hard-links available too (fwd)
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla build-config --hard-links available too (fwd) |
Date: |
02 Oct 2003 17:32:01 +0900 |
Davide Libenzi <address@hidden> writes:
> > The same warnings than for get apply:
> > BE CAREFUL with hardlinks!!
>
> I am currently playing with something like this and it seem to work. I
> did a shared library (libflcow.so) that gets loaded with LD_PRELOAD and
> read a FLCOW_PATH environment variable. Every file open RDWR inside the
> paths listed inside the FLCOW_PATH gets decoupled from the link and gets
> its own local copy. The libary hooks the open(2) function.
It would be also useful to make a list of common developer software that
_doesn't_ break hardlinks.
Emacs and patch (my main tools!) are OK (they break hardlinks), but is it
true that vim doesn't?
-Miles
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