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Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files

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On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:59:59 -0700, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 02/08/11 11:32, loial wrote:
> > > I am trying to hardlink all files in a directory structure using
> > > os.link.
> > >
> > > However I do not think it is possible to hard link directories ?
> >
> 
> That is pretty true.  I've heard of hardlinked directories on Solaris, but
> that's kind of an exception to the general rule.
>
	It's been 15 years, but I think one could create them on the Amiga.
Softlinks where the tricky one to use, since they were just data files
with full path to the linked file as the data -- applications basically
had to check if it was a softlink, if so, open/read/close then open the
linked path.
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Hardlink sub-directories and files loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 02:32 -0700
  Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-08-02 12:01 +0200
  Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-02 12:13 +0200
  Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-08-02 06:17 -0500
  Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-08-02 21:46 -0700
  Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+python@gmail.com> - 2011-08-03 12:02 +0530
    Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-08-03 14:22 +0000
      Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-03 17:08 +0200
      Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2011-08-03 12:57 -0700
  Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-03 08:04 +0100
  Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-03 11:47 +0200
  Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-03 20:49 +0200
  Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-03 23:54 +0200
  Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Alexander Gattin <xrgtn@yandex.ru> - 2011-08-08 10:07 +0300

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