hard linked symlinks (yeah)

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <1991Mar24.000253.9515 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
> Does anyone see any technical problems with having a single inode for
> a symlink, linked to under several different names?

Sure: it changes the semantics of ln -s foo bar; ln bar blah; rm bar.

> The alternative was to have separate symlinks under each name, but that
> appeared to be consuming a data block for each one to store the name
> the symlink was pointing to.  I wanted to conserve some space.

Then you should be asking for symlinks stored in the directory file
rather than in separate fragments.

---Dan