Re: how to detect a hard link in Java?
- From: "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:41:32 +0100
Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> So a symbolic link is at least not hard. I think symbolic links may
> also be called soft, sometimes.
Yes, "symbolic link" (sometimes shortened to "symlink") and "soft link" mean
the same thing. "Hard link" is really something a misnomer since there is no
"link" involved at all, at least no link between the two names, it's just that
the same data on disk can have more than one name in the file system.
(Or indeed no name at all -- which used to be a favourite way of creating
temporary files to hold ephemeral data, I don't know if it still is.)
-- chris
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