aidan kehoe kehoeaparhasardnet quoting ronan waide sure soft links would honest im trying think useful use hard links right im little stumped theres got ta benefit im missing thats immediately obvious everyone doesnt bell labs unix people implemented hard links whereas bill joy co berkeley implemented soft links five years later mainly get around able crossdevice hard linking understand soft links fairly classic berkeley hackery cf gethostbyname h_errno resultant problems implementing mtsafe interfaces intended break fairly easily case target file deleted better design similar ideas see macos im pheasant plucker im pheasant pluckers son im aplucking pheasants til pheasant plucker comes irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie sat 20 jul 2002 111111 0100 ilug copy files