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Article #273Re: yet another 1.4 request
From: Doug Merritt
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1989 18:13
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1989 18:13
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I said:
>With hard links, you can link to someone else's file, and they can delete
>it when they're done with it without worry, because you can do the same
>independently.
I neglected to explain more fully. The fact that hard links reference-
count the file and delete it when there are no more hard links left
can be handy for the same reasons that automatic garbage collection
of unused data structures is handy in languages.
As in languages, GC of files can save tedious and error prone manual
housekeeping.
Doug
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: yet another 1.4 request Summary: forgot to mention analogy with GC Message-ID: <399@xdos.UUCP> Date: 30 Jun 89 18:13:06 GMT References: <8906300342.AA12274@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <398@xdos.UUCP> Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley) Lines: 16