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On 04/12/2010 08:15 AM, Paul Bibbings wrote:
>    14:57:37 Paul Bibbings AT JIJOU
>    /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $link zoo.exe zoo_link
>=20
>    14:57:54 Paul Bibbings AT JIJOU
>    /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $ls -l
>    total 128
>    -rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo.exe
>    -rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo_link.exe

Umm, that decisively shows that 'link' created a hard link, working as
designed.  zoo.exe and zoo_link.exe both have a link count of 2,
compared to the typical link count of 1, so they are one and the same inode.

>=20
> Can I ask first of all: does link itself use ln and should I be testing
> this?

link(1) and ln(1) both call the link(2) syscall (well, ln does that if
you didn't request symlinks).  Maybe your confusion stems from wanting a
symlink instead of a hard link?  In which case, ln(1) is the only way to
get symlinks; link(1) can _only_ create hard links.

--=20
Eric Blake   eblake AT redhat DOT com    +1-801-349-2682
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