kevin lyda kevindated1027734126560c2elinuxie sun jul 21 2002 014739am 0100 paul jakma wrote isnt standard behaviour mv uses rename replaces new path name yes yes think point yes superlinks dont youre saying guess would want symlink bar linking foo stop linking foo changed uh wouldnt referring previous message discussed idea symlink referred 64 bit device id inode file gave two examples wouldnt work ln ss foo bar ls foo 111 foo rm foo touch floyd ls floyd 111 floyd example inode reuse mean somehow floyd new foo foo dead hail floyd bar points floyd yes fail mention floyd might use inode 111 might point mythical symlinks point deviceinode simple like unrm thing might possible hard links soft links best implementations survived date unix windows shortcuts kinda weird theyre really application level thing mac aliases seem take idea unix symlinks linking filename along concept deviceinode dont know mac internals seem remember told tried former first tried latter would deal 2nd example mentioned dunno im certain mac version inodes would suffer maybe fs identifier file included creation time something like control symlinks magically link new files feature think would difficult would also fail work numerous situations kevin kevinsubericnet believer happier skeptic forked 37058400 point fact drunken man happier meatspace place home sober one happiness credulity httpiesubericnetkevin cheap dangerous quality gb shaw irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie sun 21 jul 2002 024203 0100 ilug copy files