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Re: how to make symbolic links?
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Mike Shal |
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Re: how to make symbolic links? |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Sep 2011 19:30:11 -0400 |
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> One last thing: it is NOT necessary that the target of a symlink exist!
> Just because you can create the link without error doesn't meant that
> the link can be resolved. In fact a number of programs use this feature
> to good advantage, since creating a symlink is an atomic operation on
> the filesystem, for creating lock files, etc. where the target of the
> symlink is not a file at all, but rather some useful information related
> to the lock (etc.) If the information you want to keep is small this is
> MUCH more efficient than open/write/close for a real file: it's one
> (atomic) system call.
Can you point to a specific program that uses symlinks in this way? I
never thought of using it like that - it sounds pretty inventive so
I'd like to see it in action :)
Thanks!
-Mike
- RE: how to make symbolic links?, (continued)
- RE: how to make symbolic links?, Mark Galeck (CW), 2011/09/08
- Re: how to make symbolic links?, Philip Guenther, 2011/09/08
- RE: how to make symbolic links?, Mark Galeck (CW), 2011/09/08
- Re: how to make symbolic links?, Paul Smith, 2011/09/08
- Re: how to make symbolic links?,
Mike Shal <=
- Re: how to make symbolic links?, Philip Guenther, 2011/09/08
- Re: how to make symbolic links?, Paul Smith, 2011/09/09