Oliver Fromme wrote:
All properties ("meta data") of a file are stored in the inode. That includes owner, permissions, flags, and all the time stamps, including the birth time. So if you have multiple entries (hard links) pointing to the same inode, they point to the same meta data. In other words, multiple hard links of the same inode cannot have different time stamps, permissions, owner etc.
OK. > Hard links are not "virtual files". A hard link is a > directory entry that points to an inode. There is > nothing virtual about it. Quotes often mean that some some sarcasm is added to the words enclosed. _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"