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From: "William G. Scott" <wgscott@xxxxxxxx>
To: Dirk Heinrichs <dhs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Hardlinks (was: Re: Does the bash bug have a zsh counterpart?)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:02:56 -0700
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On Sep 25, 2014, at 10:46 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <dhs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am 25.09.2014 um 18:53 schrieb William G. Scott:
> 
>> (About 10 years ago I found a hard link to a then nonexistent ksh behaved properly whereas a symbolic link for whatever reason didn’t).
> 
> A hardlink is nothing more than another name for the same file. When ksh was deleted, …

ksh wasn’t deleted.  This was before Apple provided ksh, and I needed ksh to run some ancient shell-scripts.

I found for some reason if I created a symbolic link from zsh to (the previously non-existent) ksh, the behavior differed from that resulting from hard linking or copying the binary to ksh.

This was at least 10 years ago, fwiw.

William G. Scott

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References:
- Does the bash bug have a zsh counterpart?
  - From: William G. Scott
- Re: Does the bash bug have a zsh counterpart?
  - From: Peter Stephenson
- Re: Does the bash bug have a zsh counterpart?
  - From: William G. Scott
- Hardlinks (was: Re: Does the bash bug have a zsh counterpart?)
  - From: Dirk Heinrichs

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