Re: [PLUG] Interview Questions: System Admin

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On 14 Feb, 2004, at 13:06, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > One important note about hard links.  Editors like emacs will create 
> > a new
> > inode for a file. So if you edit the fileB above, you won't see the 
> > changes
> > in fileA.  Instead, that inode becames the backup.
>
> That's a pretty irrelevant note, I think, unless you're interested
> in the internal functionings of Emacs. A salient point you neglect
> to mention is what kind of links one can make across file system
> boundaries.

With emacs at least, this is also a user settable option;
and/or the default can be changed system wide.

I have no idea what other editors might do. (Put another way, emacs is
the only editor I am familiar with which makes a backup copy of the file
before it begins editing it.)

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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