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From: don@axiom.UUCP (Donald F. Picard)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Bug in hack 1.0.1
Message-ID: <39@axiom.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-May-85 14:15:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 14:15:08 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 3-May-85 08:24:13 EDT
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>I recently lost a saved game (and a good one too!) because somebody here
>made a symbolic link to the game. (Don't ask me why.)  This updated the
>inode change time of the game and so the next time I tried to play
>it told me that my saved game was out of date and threw it away!


My apologies.  Making a symbolic link to the game does not change the
inode c_time.  However, a failed hard link does!  When I was trying
to find out what happened, I first tried to do a hard link (which failed
because it could not cross file systems).  I assumed that this meant it
did not update the c_time field.  I then tried a symbolic link (which
worked), so when I checked the c_time field and noticed that it had
changed, I attributed the change to the symbolic link.  Foolish me.

I still think that this is a bug.

					Don Picard
					Axiom Technology
					... linus!axiom!don