On 03/26/2014 02:57 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Furthermore, the man page says "-l: hard link files instead > of copying'. AFAIK, symlinks are not files any more > than directories (or is that wrong too and they are now > considered to be 'files'?
Per the POSIX definition, symlinks, directories, FIFOS, and all other special files are still "files" - the term "file" includes not only "regular files" but all other named entities in the file system. Directories are the only special file type that cannot generally be hardlinked according to POSIX rules (and even then, POSIX allows the Solaris behavior where the superuser CAN hardlink directories, with the caveat that doing so causes weird behaviors). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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