As far as I know, linux doesn't support a system level way to figure out all the symbolic links point to a give file. I could do a system wide search to look for any symbolic link that point to the file that I am interested in. But this will be too slow when there are many files in the systems.
I'm thinking of writing a daemon program which will build a database on all the symbolic links that point to any files. Later on, whenever I change or remove any file or symbolic link, I'll will notify the daemon process the changes. By keeping this daemon process running, I can quickly figure out what symbolic links are pointing to any give file. But I have never make a daemon program like this in python. Could somebody point me what packages I need in order to make a daemon process like this? Thank you! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
