Re: how to detect a hard link in Java?

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:52:33 GMT, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> 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'?

A file containing the name of another file. Treated specially by the
OS, such that most operations on the link are transparently redirected
to the target file instead.

/gordon

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