Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:47:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: grog@FreeBSD.org (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister), neuhauser@bellavista.cz (Roman Neuhauser), Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com (Peter Leftwich), m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman), jeff@unixconsults.com (Jeff Jirsa), syborg@stny.rr.com (John Bleichert), FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD LIST) Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: Message-ID: <200208100047.g7A0lfn22442@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020809235055.GE39322@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" at Aug 10, 2002 09:20:55 AM
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> > A user error less likely to happen with a symlink since they show > > up so obviously in an ls -l. > > Symlinks have their place. But hard links are the building stuff of > file systems. Symlinks are a relatively new addition to the file > system: ten years ago, a number of commercial UNIXes, and also Linux, > didn't have them. > > The problem with symlinks is that they confuse people. You still seem > to think there's something different between /usr/bin/more and > /usr/bin/less. There isn't now because someone put the same file out there with two names. Well, this has gone far enough anyway. ////jerry > So people put these forests of symlinks in directories > where they just confuse things. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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