Re: Executable deleted after first run

[Jan Djärv]

Leo skrev:
> * Chris Moore (2007-01-04 10:45 +0100) said:
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > On 1/4/07, Leo <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > It turns out all hard links will be deleted after user log off. The
> > > file system is: `type ncpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)' as I am running
> > > Emacs on my Univ's server.
> > > Is there any reason to choose hard link over symbolic link?
> > All regular files are hard links.  A hard link is just a name for a
> > file on disk.  "emacs" is one name for the executable and
> > "emacs-22.0.92" is another name for the same executable.  There's no
> > concept of one being a link to the other, they are both names for
> > the same file on disk.  If "all hard links" are deleted, then both
> > "emacs" and "emacs-22.0.92" will be deleted, along with all your
> > other files.
>
> Then I don't know what's going on. 'emacs' is deleted but
> 'emacs-22.0.92' is not.
>
> Any other files I created using 'ln' will also be deleted.

"Hard link" usually means a file with a link count greater than 1.

        Jan D.