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In article <overlord.b5cr@megalith.miami.fl.us> overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga) writes:
>      I remember a long while ago, there was a discussion about a bug in
> hardlinks in all versions of the O.S. greater than 2.04.  Does anyone know
> if this bug still exists in version 3.1 of the operating system?  Are there
> any PD patches for this bug?  Anyone using wCnews use any special kludges
> to get around the bug and if so what may they be?
> 
> Thanks and take care...

I run wCNews [grudgingly, it's a dog, but it's the best available], on a
2.04 system and have never noticed any problems caused by hardlinks.

I keep hearing about "bugs" in hardlinks but never any specifics. If I
remember rightly, the problems concern directories rather than files,
and as all wCNews (and AmigaUUCP news) use are file hardlinks, there
shouldn't be a problem.

The links that are really screwed up on 2.04+ Amigas are soft links.
The pseado-UNIX operating system provided with GNU C supports them and
I once set up a few, thinking that as GNU C thingie (ixemu) was okay
about them, so would AmigaDOS, after all, ixemu sits on top of AmigaDOS
doesn't it? Nah! AmigaDOS was *really* confused by the whole thing, and
wouldn't resolve any links.

Hardlinks though, to directories or to files, I've never had a problem
with.

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