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One important note about hard links. Editors like emacs will create a new
inode for a file. So if you edit the fileB above, you won't see the changes
in fileA. Instead, that inode becames the backup.
That's a pretty irrelevant note, I think, unless you're interested in the internal functionings of Emacs. A salient point you neglect to mention is what kind of links one can make across file system boundaries.
With emacs at least, this is also a user settable option; and/or the default can be changed system wide.
I have no idea what other editors might do. (Put another way, emacs is the only editor I am familiar with which makes a backup copy of the file before it begins editing it.)
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