[Python-Dev] PEP 394 request for pronouncement (python2 symlink in *nix systems)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 12.02.2012 17:04, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
> Le dimanche 12 février 2012 à 16:52 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit :
>>> Why hard links? Symlinks are much more introspectable. When looking at
>>> a hard link I have no easy way to know it's the same as whatever other
>>> file in the same directory.
>>
>> There actually *is* an easy way, in regular ls: look at the link count.
>> It comes out of ls -l by default, and if it's >1, there will be an
>> identical file.
> 
> This doesn't tell me which file it is

Well, you didn't ask for that, it does "to know it's the same as
whatever other file" nicely :-)

As Charles-François explains, you can use ls -i for that, which isn't
that easy, but still straight-forward.

Regards,
Martin