Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: filesystem links (was: yet another 1.4 request) Message-ID: <3961@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 28 Jun 89 00:22:11 GMT References: <0933.AA0933@caleb> <1989Jun16.151408.8382@ziebmef.uucp> <112459@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 11 In article <112459@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page) writes: > strengths and limitations. Under the Amiga FS in the non-existant > v1.4, all links are soft links. However, UNIX-heads have come to > think of soft links as being able to cross file systems, and the FS > links under the non-existant v1.4 don't. Why not? because they're really hard links but don't have all the UNIX semantics? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U`