Re: how to detect a hard link in Java?

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:40:58 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

> On 2005-08-31, Andrew Thompson penned:
>> On 30 Aug 2005 18:39:47 -0700, jojo wrote:
>>
>>> I have an application need to detect the hard links ...
>>
>> What's a 'soft link'?
>
> Serious question,

Yep.

>..or are you just pointing out that this is
> OS-dependent?

Unfortunately I trimmed the part indicating OS
specific, but I understood that. No, I suppose if
I had any point, it would have been 'when dealing
with OS specific stuff, give a few wrods description
of what you mean', beyond 'like the help wizard in Word'..

> If you create hard links to a filename, each hard link is just as
> valid as the original filename. It's just as proper to say that
> hardlink1 "is" the file as it is to say that filename "is" the file.
> When all hard links are removed, the file is deleted. A soft link, on
> the other hand, is a pointer to a filename ... in fact, a soft link
> may even be sensitive to relative path location, and will break if you
> move the original file.
>
> Hrm. Clear as mud. It's clear in my head =/

OK. (chuckles) It least it clarifies that 'getCanonicalPath'
is not the answer to this one..

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