bug#42620: hard link improvement for gzip (wishlist item)

[Paul Eggert]

On 7/30/20 1:19 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:

this could be improved:

     % ls -l >x; ln -f x y; gzip x y
     gzip: x has 1 other link  -- unchanged
     gzip: y has 1 other link  -- unchanged

What improvement do you suggest?