From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Subject: Re: Symbolic instead of hard link as crosspost-link-function?
Date: 21 Jul 1997 07:53:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86204ssbgp.fsf@kramer.in.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SL Baur's message of "21 Jul 1997 01:01:38 -0700"
SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
>
> >>>>>> "MD" == Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:
>
> MD> Is it possible to define the crosspost-link-function to use symbolic
> MD> links instead of hard links?
>
> > Important reason why not: not all filesystems support symbolic links.
>
> Symbolic links are about 20 years old and have withstood the test of
> time. If a system hasn't implemented them by now, why can't it safely
> be ignored?
Windoze.
-bp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-07-21 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-18 1:02 Mikael Djurfeldt
1997-07-18 13:51 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1997-07-18 14:22 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-07-18 15:17 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
[not found] ` <wkn2nk5drp.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-21 8:01 ` SL Baur
1997-07-21 14:53 ` William M. Perry [this message]
1997-07-21 16:26 ` Dan Schmidt
[not found] ` <wkn2ng8594.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-22 14:12 ` Michael Lamoureux
1997-07-22 15:44 ` William M. Perry
[not found] ` <wk7mejx7ea.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-23 14:45 ` Michael Lamoureux
1997-07-23 15:19 ` Steve Baumgarten
1997-07-23 15:53 ` Scott Blachowicz
1997-07-23 16:17 ` William M. Perry
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