hi ya dan
congrats you found more differences in ln ... :-)
- very interesting differences in ln
( see the next test below ... done same way as yours...
- .pine having been local to the dir makes
a difference when my .prinrc023592 file was elsewhere
- yes the hardlinks for gunzip and gzip is not a issue in that
case since its in the same directory/partitions
- hardlinks is a problem when it crosses directories
and partitions since it keeps the leading /
and i did my silly ln tests on a old rh box...
Maggie:~> ln --version
ln (GNU fileutils) 3.16
thanx
alvin
-- re-testing for fun
-
- same as your results !!!
-
Maggie:/tmp/test# touch .pine
Maggie:/tmp/test# ln -s ./.pine x.s
Maggie:/tmp/test# ln ./.pine x.h
Maggie:/tmp/test# ls -la
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 15 18:44 ./
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 1024 May 15 18:44 ../
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 May 15 18:44 .pine
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 May 15 18:44 x.h
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 15 18:44 x.s -> ./.pine
On 15 May 2001, Dan Christensen wrote:
> Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > i dont use hardlinks.. ( creates portability problems )
>
> If you have standard Debian software installed, like gzip, then
> you use hardlinks.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# ls -l /bin/*zip*
> -rwxr-xr-x 4 root root 46160 Dec 2 1999 /bin/gunzip*
> -rwxr-xr-x 4 root root 46160 Dec 2 1999 /bin/gzip*
>
> These files have 4 links to them.
>
> > Maggie:/tmp/test# ln -s ./pinerc023592 x.s
> > Maggie:/tmp/test# ln ./pinerc023592 x.h
> > Maggie:/tmp/test# ls -la
> > total 2
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 14 20:11 ./
> > drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 1024 May 14 20:08 ../
> > lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 24 May 14 20:08 pinerc023592 ->
> > /home/alvin/pinerc023592
> > lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 24 May 14 20:08 x.h ->
> > /home/alvin/pinerc023592
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May 14 20:11 x.s ->
> > ./pinerc023592
>
> What unix are you using? That x.h sure looks like a soft symlink
> to me. On my Debian system:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/test% touch .pine
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/test% ln -s ./.pine x.s
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/test% ln ./.pine x.h
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/test% ls -la
> total 8
> drwx------ 2 jdc jdc 4096 May 15 10:04 ./
> drwxrwxrwt 23 root root 4096 May 15 10:03 ../
> -rw------- 2 jdc jdc 0 May 15 10:03 .pine
> -rw------- 2 jdc jdc 0 May 15 10:03 x.h
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdc jdc 7 May 15 10:04 x.s -> ./.pine
>
> A hardlink isn't "symbolic" in that the file name of the target
> isn't stored. Your test shows a softlink.
>
> Dan
>
