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Article #1336Re: Links
From: Deven T. Corzine
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 11:34
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 11:34
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On 16 Sep 89 01:28:44 GMT, dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) said: Matt> In all my years hacking UNIX systems I've never cared how fast Matt> soft links are vs hard links, or hard links vs aliases, or Matt> whatever. Matt> It simply does not matter, you don't notice the difference. Matt> 99.99999% of the time one is worrying about the billions of Matt> read() and write() calls you need to make rather than the *one* Matt> time you need to open the file. Normally, the difference IS negligable. The exceptions come when you get many layers of symbolic links, on the 386i, for example... Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2151 12th St. Apt. 4, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (---) --none-- Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!pawl!shadow From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Links Message-ID: <SHADOW.89Sep19073617@pawl.rpi.edu> Date: 19 Sep 89 11:34:24 GMT References: <8909160128.AA05181@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU's message of 16 Sep 89 01:28:44 GMT