Van Sickler, Jim wrote, in small part: > It doesn't exist either...I thought a symlink creation would > fail if the (link source) file didn't exist. I guess if the > file was deleted AFTER the symlink was created, the symlink > would remain. Understandable, but naughty. > At least if you've got anything like standard Unix, a symlink can be created when the file it points to doesn't exist. This is normal, & in fact is done all the time. Certainly, deleting a file does not require finding & deleting any symlinks pointing to it, & shouldn't. I'd say it was naughty if it *did*. Or use stronger language.
You can't create a *hard* link (new directory entry in same filesystem for same file) unless the file you're linking to exists. Maybe that's what you're thinking of. (And deleting a hard link doesn't delete the file itself, unless you track down & delete all hard links. This is a feature, not a bug; I'm pretty sure that's exactly how mv works if the destination is in the same filesystem as the file being moved or renamed.) -- - Dave Lovelace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
