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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Feb 12 17:04:39 CET 2012

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, which is practically useless if I have both python3.3 and python3.2 in that directory.

If you look at the patch, you'll notice that the only change is to make the links hard links.

This begs the question: why?

Regards

Antoine.

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