Hi all!
I'd like to know the differences between hard links and soft links. I've already read the ln manpage, but i'm not quite sure of what i understood.
Does a hard link sort of copy the file to a new name, give it the same inode number and same rights?
What exactly should I do to do this:... (3 Replies)
I am curious about one thing.
Lets say I have a file file-a to which new generations are created on demand by simply archiving it (ex: file-a.tar.gz) and having the new one created with the same original filename file-a.
Now what I want to know is if I create a hard/soft link to file-a, what... (1 Reply)
Hi
PLease let me know the usage of Hard Link vs Soft Link
i.e what is the basic difference and what happens when one file is changed or deleted in both the cases???
thanks (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
Please help me out to find out difference between a hard link and a soft link.
I am new in unix plz help me with some example commands ( for creating such links).
Regards
S.Kamakshi :) (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have created soft links for some devices /dev/xvd*1. The owner of the soft links is oracle:dba. The problem is after reboot the ownership is changed to root:root. How can I permanently change the ownership to oracle:dba?
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi ,
When installing oracle software a set of directories are created under
the home directories.
Since the home directory is usually not big , i would like to create a soft link
from the home directory to mount point with alot of free space , that way the logs will not be wriiten under the... (1 Reply)
hi
i have create a soft link using below command.
ln -s <filename> <dirmane>where file name i use is t1 and dir name was t2.
i deleted the dir t2 using command rm -rf to remove the soft link .
however again i create a file a using the name t2 and when i just try to link t1 to t2 ... (1 Reply)
I did restore from netbackup for root file system on separate slice instead of corrupted one. After restoration I found there are number of soft link issues lie
e.g
libabcxyx > /mnt/usr/lib
it should be
libabcxyz > /usr/lib
does any have solution to change symbolic link changed in... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I tried creating a soft link with the file itself. It got created successfully.
bash-3.2$ ls -l a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ebrigup other 1 Oct 5 19:14 a -> a
bash-3.2$
Can anyone explain what is the possible use of it. I dont see any except practically wasting an inode... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: brij123
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di_link_to_lnode
di_link_spectype(3DEVINFO) Device Information Library Functions di_link_spectype(3DEVINFO)NAME
di_link_spectype, di_link_to_lnode - return libdevinfo link information
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -ldevinfo [ library... ]
#include <libdevinfo.h>
int di_link_spectype(di_link_t link);
di_lnode_t di_link_to_lnode(di_link_t link, uint_t endpoint);
PARAMETERS
link A handle to a link.
endpoint specifies the endpoint of the link, which should correspond to either DI_LINK_TGT or DI_LINK_SRC
DESCRIPTION
The di_link_spectype() function returns libdevinfo link information.
The di_link_to_lnode() function takes a link specified by link and returns the lnode corresponding to the link endpoint specified by end-
point.
RETURN VALUES
The di_link_spectype() function returns the spectype parameter flag that was used to open the target device of a link, either S_IFCHR or
S_IFBLK.
Upon successful completion, di_link_to_lnode() returns a handle to an lnode. Otherwise, DI_LINK_NIL is returned and errno is set to indi-
cate the error.
ERRORS
The di_link_to_lnode() function will fail if:
EINVAL An argument is invalid.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Evolving |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO di_init(3DEVINFO), libdevinfo(3LIB), attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 22 Mar 2004 di_link_spectype(3DEVINFO)