[Info-vax] links and deleting directory trees (Re: Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-01-23 11:25:42 +0000, hb said:

> On 01/22/2016 08:11 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> I would expect a tool designed to delete a directory tree to remove 
>> links but not follow them, at least by default, ...
> 
> You probably want to specify which kind of links. Symbolic links (can 
> be easily identified and they) should be removed and not followed.  
> Hardlinks should be followed and removed, by default.

...And some folks grumbled about my earlier suggestions around 
application guides; around the sorts of task-targeted documentation 
materials that try to keep folks out of the weeds.   Particularly those 
folks that haven't read section 10.12 / Understanding Hard Links of the 
_System Manager's Manual_ and Chapter 12 / Symbolic Links and POSIX 
Pathname Support over in the _C Run-Time Library Reference Manual_, and 
that may have missed one or two other sections of the documentation.   
The Programming Concepts has no index references to links or hard links 
or symbolic links.   I'd wager that the PCSI manual has zilch on the 
topic, too.  (But then, who can even find the OpenVMS manuals at either 
HPE or VSI?)


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