Am 23.02.2012 20:54 schrieb Jerry Hill:
If I recall correctly, for directories, that's the number of entries in the directory.
No. It is the number of subdirectories (it counts their ".." entries) plus 2 (the parent directory and the own "." entry).
Even with that, it's hard to tell what files are hardlinked together, and figuring it out by inode is a pain in the neck. Personally, I prefer symlinks, even if they introduce a small performance hit.
Not only that, they have slightly different semantics. With hardlinks you can say "I want this file, no matter if someone else holds it as well". Symlinks say "I want the file which is referred to by there".
In the given case, however, this difference doesn't count, and I agree on you that a symlink would be better here.
Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
