On 07/16/2012 11:47 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Eleanore Boyd wrote: > >> The compilation process creates the hard links, so there is no need to >> manually create links. > Correct. > >> If anything, creating links beforehand may cause >> errors due to the links pointing nowhere. > LOL. You can't create a hard link that points to nowhere. You could > create an empty file, but hard links don't 'point' anywhere. They are > just multiple directory entries that point to the same inode. > > -- Bruce >
One could do this echo "test file" > test ln test link1 ln test link2 ln link1 link3 ls -i 1333952 test 1333952 link1 1333952 link2 1333952 link3 rm test ls -i 1333952 link1 1333952 link2 1333952 link3 Doesn't link[1..3] point to "no where" or garbage? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
