Re: Windows and DLLs

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

That is not quite true.  With hard links, you can have two names for the
same file, residing in different directories.

Both names just point to the inode number, so there is no way to find the
other name for the file without searching the whole file system for files
with the same inode.

Of course, you don't have this particular problem with soft (symbolic)
links, where you can get the name of the original file easily.

James Henstridge.

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On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, John Kodis wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 11:57:14AM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, David Jeske wrote:
> > > We need a standard way for an app to find the full path to it's
> > 
> > This simply is not really possible -- think of hard links. the only thing
> > you might get would be an inode number and a device which wouldn't help.
> 
> Hard links allow there to be more than one fully qualified path to a
> given file.  This isn't a problem, however, as all of these paths will
> point to the same directory.
> 
> -- John Kodis.
> 
> 
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