Re: [boost] [modular boost] non-linked headers

On 3 December 2013 00:17, Bjørn Roald wrote:

On 12/03/2013 01:11 AM, Daniel James wrote:

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On 3 December 2013 00:08, Bjørn Roald wrote:

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yes, but b2 headers create hard links

It really should use soft links. Most programs don't change files in place, so as soon as such a change is made the two entries will be pointing to different inodes. Which defeats the purpose, since they should always be the same.

yes that would be bad.

Is this behavior documented somewhere?

A bit of testing showed that "most" probably wasn't true, but it definitely varies. But here's someone complaining about emacs breaking hard links: http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=25 'sed -i' also breaks hard links. I think it's actually configurable in both emacs and vim, which is worse, because you can't know. The problem is that it varies so it's unpredictable. Soft links are consistent.