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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: re: Hard linking vs. Soft linking on BSD
Message-ID: <6892@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 20 Dec 87 01:48:37 GMT
References: <939DBLCU@CUNYVM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <939DBLCU@CUNYVM> DBLCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>I have a follow up question on using soft links. Is there a pronounced
>performance cost by using such a link, or is it negligible?

I have trouble imagining an application where the cost would be
noticeably more than some other approach that accomplishes the same
thing.  (I phrased this strangely, to acknowledge that the target
of a symlink might be a remote file system, for example.)