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| References | <ji630k$52f$1@news.albasani.net> |
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| Date | 2012-02-23 14:24 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink? |
| From | Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.84.1330025066.3037.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:11 PM, HoneyMonster <someone@someplace.invalid> wrote: > $ cd /usr/bin > $ ls -l python* > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 9496 Oct 27 02:42 python > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Oct 29 19:34 python2 -> python > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 9496 Oct 27 02:42 python2.7 > $ diff -s python python2.7 > Files python and python2.7 are identical > $ > > I'm just curious: Why two identical files rather than a symlink? It's not two files, it's a hardlink. You can confirm by running ls -li python* and comparing the inode numbers. -- Jerry
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Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink? HoneyMonster <someone@someplace.invalid> - 2012-02-23 19:11 +0000
Re: Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink? Colin Higwell <colinh@somewhere.invalid> - 2012-02-23 19:15 +0000
Re: Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink? Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2012-02-23 14:24 -0500
Re: Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink? HoneyMonster <someone@someplace.invalid> - 2012-02-23 19:34 +0000
Re: Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-02-23 16:11 -0500
Re: Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink? John Roth <johnroth1@gmail.com> - 2012-02-24 09:22 -0800
Re: Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink? Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2012-02-23 14:54 -0500
Re: Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink? Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2012-02-24 08:47 +0100
Re: Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-02-24 08:17 -0500
Re: Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-02-23 11:26 -0800
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