Re: Changing file & directory names

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Sun Jul 02 03:21:27 2006

On Jul 1, 2006, at 8:28 PM, Derrick Bass wrote:

> Also, I'm but confused by Sherm Pendley's mention of link and 
> unlink. I think he's assuming it is correct but needs a tortured 
> interpretation in order to reconcile it with our notion of what 
> should happen. Anyway, he's right that no copies are made.


That was essentially my assumption, yes - I'd assumed that the docs 
were in some way correct, but written very badly, in a way that's 
easy to misinterpret. It hadn't occurred to me that they might be 
flat-out wrong - and I apologize to John Stiles for doubting him when 
he pointed out that they are.

> But also, no hard links are made, either. As someone else pointed 
> out, it is actually possible on HFS+ to detect whether or not a 
> file has ever had multiple links. Once it is multiply linked, it 
> acts forever differently, even if all but one of those links is 
> subsequently deleted.


That's good to know - thanks.

> The documentation is simply incorrect.


Thanks for clearing that up.

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