Sean McNeil wrote: >On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:41 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > >># ls -l /sys >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 11 Sep 4 22:03 /sys -> usr/src/sys >># if [ /sys -ef /usr/src/sys ] >> > then >> > echo same >> > else >> > echo no >> > fi >>no >> >> >>I would have expected the result "same" >> >>comments? >> >> > >By "same file" they mean each references the same inode. Since this is >a symlink, the files do not refer to the same file. > >You can see that if it were a hard link the result would be "same" >echoed. > > yes, but this leaves us with no way to check that a file and a symlink are the same. >Cheers, >Sean > > >Received on Wed Jan 12 2005 - 00:10:07 UTC
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