Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!pnet02!ddave From: ddave@pnet02.gryphon.com (David Donley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Linking to Unix dirs (was Re: toolpath wanted in workbench 1.4) Message-ID: <19619@gryphon.COM> Date: 8 Sep 89 03:40:44 GMT Sender: root@gryphon.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 33 doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes: >>Lehtinen Pertti: Unix doesn't allow you make hard links to directories. >>Peter da Silva: But it does. >>Ronald Minnich: The last version of Unix that allowed you to was long ago. >>Fred Fish: >>David Donley: On HP-UX systems you have to be superuser to link directories. > >There seems to be a lot of confusion on the subject, so let's straighten >this out. > 5) Links are *not* "a slow substitute for aliases", unless you're > widening the definition of "alias" to include link-like objects, > in which case it's still a nonsensical statement. > Off the cuff opinions about things you know nothing about > are no substitute for precise reasoning about design tradeoffs. > Links have both good and bad points; it reflects much better > on a poster if he shows he has knowledge of those tradeoffs, not > just uninformed opinions. > >-Doug- >-- >Doug Merritt {pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug >Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow Professional Wildeyed Visionary Links are indeed "a slow substiture for aliases". I know what links are. Hard links on the same volume have no practical use at all except to be aliases, maybe for UN*X people using sh (which still can't do aliases) Anyhow, I think soft links between volumes would be useful, but hard links - Nah... It reflects better on a poster if he doesn't make uninformed statments about other poster's abilities/knowledge/expierience... Lighten up, buddy. ---------------------------------------