Re: OK for apps to break hard links?

FROM : Robert Fischer
DATE : Tue Nov 19 04:05:00 2002

On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 08:42 PM, Troy Goodson wrote:

> I see.  So there's a trade-off here.  And, I guess Finder aliases
> -don't- get broken.  So, when presented with this case, should the
> application warn the user that a hard link (or soft link) is about to
> be broken?  ...


Symbolic links will not be broken as well! So "ln -s hello.txt
hello-link.txt" will work. What did you mean with "soft link"?


Cheers,

Robert

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