Dan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
It works here (Py 2.4.3 on Ubuntu Dapper Drake)
The way to check whether you are getting a copy or a hardlink is to
see whether the inode number is the same.
Otherwise it is impossible to tell whether you have a copy or a
hardlink.
>>> import os
>>> file("z", "w").write("test")
>>> os.link("z", "z2")
>>> os.stat("z").st_ino
1685186L
>>> os.stat("z2").st_ino
1685186L
>>> print os.popen("ls -li z z2").read()
1685186 -rw-r--r-- 2 ncw ncw 4 2006-06-10 08:31 z
1685186 -rw-r--r-- 2 ncw ncw 4 2006-06-10 08:31 z2
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