On 20 Jun 2005 11:43:28 -0700, rumours say that "Oren Tirosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>For very short keys and record (e.g. email addresses) you can use >symbolic links instead of files. The advantage is that you have a >single system call (readlink) to retrieve the contents of a link. No >need to open, read and close. readlink also does open, read and close too. And why go through indirection? Why not make indexes into subdirectories, say, and hard-link the records under different filenames? >This works only on posix systems, of course. There aren't any non-posix-conformant --or, at least, any non-self-described-as-posix-conformant :-)-- operating systems in wide use today. Hint: win32file.CreateHardLink -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Dear Paul, please stop spamming us." The Corinthians -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
