Timeline for Do hard links count as normal files?
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| Oct 13, 2015 at 3:31 | comment | added | arielf | links in Unix are names referring to data (inodes) in the filesystem. It is the data that determines the type of the "file" (a normal file, socket, pipe, device etc), sizes, permissions, modified times, etc. The link (name of object) has nothing to do with what kind of data is, you can name the object as you please, so the answer to the OP question is NO. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 23:05 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 85 characters in body; edited tags |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 19:04 | answer | added | jthill | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 11:52 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | Related: Determining if a file is a hard link or symbolic link? | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 10:28 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackUnix/status/651705566675517440 | ||
| Oct 7, 2015 at 5:52 | comment | added | Random832 | @Mr.MintyFresh In particular, there's no distinction between the "original" and the "link" as there is for symbolic links. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 2:42 | vote | accept | Mr. Minty Fresh | ||
| Oct 7, 2015 at 2:18 | answer | added | seumasmac | timeline score: 42 | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 2:01 | comment | added | Mr. Minty Fresh | @AndrewHenle Wow, good point. That is exactly the kind of thing that I was looking for, so thanks. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 1:47 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | All "regular files" in a directory are hard links. Some such files have more than one. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 1:46 | comment | added | jordanm | With hard links "X" isn't really linked to "Y". "X" and "Y" are the same file. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 1:45 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 7, 2015 at 1:41 | history | asked | Mr. Minty Fresh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |