RE: [cobalt-users] Re: Default FTP login on RaQ2/3

["Paul Alcock" <webmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Lasman
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 11:01 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Default FTP login on RaQ2/3


Fathi Said wrote:

> Can you tell me, what is the difference between a symbolic and a hard
link?

Ok, here's my review...
Let's say you create a file ...../web/mydir/myfile.dat
Then you create a symlink ...../web/hisdir/myfile.dat >
...../web/mydir/myfile.dat
And you create a hardlink ...../web/herdir/myfile.dat >
...../web/mydir/myfile.dat

Now if you unlink ...../web/mydir/myfile.dat then the symlink
...../web/hisdir/myfile.dat will be useless and point to nowhere.
But the hardlink ...../web/herdir/myfile.dat will still exist as a file.
In order to remove the file (myfile.dat) completely you would have to unlink
all hardlinks pointing to the original file.

OK?
Paul
ps. the subject seems to have gone astray somewhere along the line, but I
left it so that the thread follows on.
(Just trying to avoid the hellfire and brimstones!-)