Messages in this thread | | | From | Philipp Marek <> | Subject | Changing the data of hardlinked symlinks | Date | Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:03:38 +0200 |
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Hello everybody,
I'd like to know if there's something I'm missing, or whether that's simply not possible currently - or won't ever because of POSIX.
I have hardlinks of symlinks, like this: # ls -la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 17 15:36 daten drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 15:37 daten2 lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 5 Jun 17 15:36 link -> daten lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 5 Jun 17 15:36 link2 -> daten lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 6 Jun 17 15:37 link3 -> daten2 lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 6 Jun 17 15:37 link4 -> daten2 lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 5 Jun 17 15:36 link5 -> daten lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 6 Jun 17 15:37 link6 -> daten2
Now I'd like to change the inode of one of the symlinks, but in a way that *all* symlinks sharing the inode are changed, too.
"ln -f" doesn't work; "man symlink" and "man link" let me believe that it's not possible.
I even looked at debugfs, but from a quick look I only saw how to read the data of an inode ("cat") - nothing to write it back.
Is there some way to do that?
Regards,
Phil
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