Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

From: Borja Marcos <BORJAMAR@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:26:28 +0100

That maybe the case but does rm -f <file> remove all copies?
Nope so its behaviour is safe even with multiple hardlinks.

No. rm unlinks a file from a directory. If the file had no more links, it is deleted as well.

There's no surprise at all on the behavior of rm with hard links.

Borja.

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