Re: [boost] [modular boost] non-linked headers

3 Dec 2013

      On 12/03/2013 01:17 AM, Bjørn Roald wrote:
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On 12/03/2013 01:11 AM, Daniel James wrote:
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On 3 December 2013 00:08, Bjørn Roald  wrote:
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yes, but b2 headers create hard links
It really should use soft links. Most programs don't change files in
place, so as soon as such a change is made the two entries will be
pointing to different inodes. Which defeats the purpose, since they
should always be the same.
yes that would be bad.
Is this behavior documented somewhere?
not sure I understood exactly what you refer to, but I did just test 
command line concatenation, emacs, gedit, vim.  All of them seem to 
change the file as I expected.  What programs do you have in mind?

I am surprised if there is a problem with this, but if it is we should 
re-consider the use of hardlinks.

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Bjørn