20 Apr
2005
20 Apr
'05
8:35 p.m.
Rene Rivera wrote:
Tom Tan (SH/RDC) wrote:
That 's right. Try command: $ls -l libboost_regex-gcc-d.so -rwxr-xr-x 2 tomtan staff 5.5M Feb 21 10:54 libboost_regex-gcc-d.so Now see the second column. more than 1 (2 in this case) means this file has hard links. Anyway, why not a symbolic link ?
It's a long story.. But at the end it's what was easiest to implement at the time :-)
As for the Windows case, it does a copy instead of the ln.
On my Linux installation, those are all symlinks, nothing is hard linked. How come? -- Matthias Kaeppler