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Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features
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olafBuddenhagen |
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Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features |
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Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:56:18 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:24:53AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Use /hurd/firmlink to get hardlinked directories.
Firmlinks aren't the same as hardlinks, neither technically nor
semantically.
If you have a firmlinked file or directory, then there is still a
primary (hard) link and a secondary (firm) link. Removing the primary
link will destroy the directory, breaking the firm link. With hard
links, that doesn't happen.
I think it would be useful to have a link type in the Hurd that can
fully emulate hard links in the above example (by transparently
switching the firmlink to a hard link if the primary link goes away),
but firmlink doesn't do that -- and sadly, I see some fundamental
problems, with probably make such a behaviour unfeasible :-(
-antrik-
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, (continued)
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/07
- Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/07
- symbolic links & `..' entry, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/08
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/08
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry, Ivan Shmakov, 2007/02/10
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2007/02/10
- Re: symbolic links & `..' entry, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/11
Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/02/03
Re: Hurd and Unix/Linux and Plan9 features, olafBuddenhagen, 2007/02/03