Re: [PATCH 5/6] Add plan9/wrap.c
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Kyohei Kadota <lufia@lufia.org>
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- Aug 4, 2019, 01:26 UTC
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2019-08-04(Sun) 9:03 brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>:
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> > On 2019-08-03 at 23:52:12, lufia via GitGitGadget wrote: > > From: lufia <lufia@lufia.org> > > > > Plan 9 has bind(1) instead of ln(1), but bind isn't persisted to the disk. > > However it isn't efficient to copy git to git- subcommands such as git-add. > > Therefore Plan 9 needs wrap.c to switch behavior by executable name. > > Does Plan 9 have symbolic links? The INSTALL_SYMLINKS option uses > symlinks instead, which should avoid the need for hard links. > -- > brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US > OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
No, Plan 9 don't have a feature to create symbolic link. I think Plan 9 will not be going to have hard- and symbolic- links. http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/lexnames