Make hardlinking kernel-devel optional
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Wed Feb 1 02:55:47 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:48 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:26:03PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> > The post script is forking hardlink over 5000 times as well as causing
> > thousands of repeated directory lookups by find and the shell (that
> > hardlink then has to do anyway), instead of just letting one run of
> > hardlink do its job (it should recurse just fine).
>
> I've often wondered why it was written that way too.
> Arjan, do you recall ?
It does it so that you ensure that you're only hardlinking the same copy
of any foo.h in the directory layout instead of all copies
Jeremy
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