On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Allen Curtis wrote: > I have a couple questions about hard links. > > 1. Is there an easy way to determine if a file is actually a hard link? (or > locate files with multiple references?) The inode of the file on every hard link to the same file will be the same use ls -i to get the inode number. then find -inode to get the other link(s) > 2. What are the circumstances where symbolic links do not work? I love > symbolic links but some utilities such as "tftp" doesn't follow the link. > This is usually frustrating since it takes time to determine what the > problem since most things work. (even NFS exported mounts) Either the file that the link is to does not exist Or the program has used lstat to check if its a link and then that would be an application specific program with why the link doesnt work. James -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
