On 03/26/2014 02:21 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:

>     As far as I know, you could never hardlink
> to a symlink.  only to a file.

Wrong.  Linux and Solaris have been able to hard link to symlinks for
YEARS; and POSIX 2008 standardized that ability when it added the
linkat() syscall.  BSD has been behind in adding that ability, but is
slowly getting there.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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