On 11/9/2015 12:02 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
Now that you point that out, I agree. I never thought about it that way before since I've always looked at a hard link as a link that you create after you create the initial file, though they become interchangeable after that.
on Unix systems, the actual 'file' is known as an inode, and is identified by a inode number. Directories are other files that contain indexed directory entries with filenames pointing to these inodes.
the tricky thing with hard links is, you have to walk the whole directory tree of a given file system to find every entry pointing to the same inode if you want to identify these links.
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