What are the advantages of symlinks over hard links and viceversa?
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I understand the differences between symbolic and hard links, but I've never understood why choose one or the other.
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Ronald wrote a hard link can have different permissions in two places. This is not right. Both places share the same inode. Permissions are bound to the inode, not the filename. So hardlinks in two places have exactly the same permissions, access ti…
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