Dan M wrote: > I'm a little bit confused. According to the sources I've looked at on the > net, > os.link('file1', 'file2') > should make a hard link from file1 to file2. But what I'm finding is that > it's actually making a copy. Am I forgetting a step or something? > > Python 2.3.4 running on CentOS 4.3
Are file1 and file2 on the same filesystem? Looks like os.link just calls the OS's link system call, which, for your system, might copy the file. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list