> Why hard links? Symlinks are much more introspectable. When looking at > a hard link I have no easy way to know it's the same as whatever other > file in the same directory.
There actually *is* an easy way, in regular ls: look at the link count. It comes out of ls -l by default, and if it's >1, there will be an identical file. I agree with the question, though: this needs to be justified (but there may well be a justification). > I also don't understand this mention: > > "The make install command in the CPython 3.x series will similarly > install the python3.x, idle3.x, pydoc3.x, and python3.x-config binaries > (with appropriate x), and python3, idle3, pydoc3, and python3-config as > hard links. This feature will first appear in CPython 3.3." > > This feature actually exists in 3.2 (but with a symlink, fortunately): If you look at the patch, you'll notice that the only change is to make the links hard links. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com