Hard Links between UNIX Utility Programs
Chuck Karish
karish at denali.stanford.edu
Wed Jul 27 11:02:00 AEST 1988
In article <184 at chip.UUCP> mparker at chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) writes:
>I have noticed the tendency for some programs in UNIX to have hard links.
>The program operation is then determined by the name it was invoked by.
>As a system administrator this makes it very difficult for me to restrict
>one program without restricting all their linked set.
Why don't you just remove one of the links, and make a second copy of
the program?
The remaining administrative problem is keeping track of which programs
need to be copied this way when a new version of the operating system is
installed. The installation log files (``tar v'' output) tell you
when links are made, as opposed to actual file extractions.
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