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Hard link not works under Mac OS X in GUI mode

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Mar 15, 20261717 views
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Problem

I faced a little strange behavior, while using hard links. From Terminal, I create a text file 1.txt and a hard link "to this file" I check the resulting hard link and see that its contents are the same as of the original file. I change the initial file ... ... and see, that changes was reflected i…

Error Output

nano 1.txt
mkdir dir
ln 1.txt ./dir/

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Fix for: Hard link not works under Mac OS X in GUI mode

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It's not about the GUI, it's specifically about 's strategy for saving changes: it does not write in place on the existing file, but rather it first writes a new one, and when that's completed it removes the old one and renames the new one to the ol…

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