In article <ji7fbd$drj$1...@r03.glglgl.gl>, Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa...@spamschutz.glglgl.de> wrote:
> Not only that, [hard and symbolic links] have slightly different > semantics. This is true, but only for very large values of "slightly". Symlinks, for example, can cross file system boundaries (including NFS mount points). Symlinks can refer to locations that don't exist! For example: ~$ ln -s foobar foo ~$ ls -l foo lrwxr-xr-x 1 roy staff 6 Feb 24 08:15 foo -> foobar ~$ cat foo cat: foo: No such file or directory Symlinks can be chained (i.e. a symlink points to someplace which in turn is another symlink). They're really very different beasts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
