From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 19:05:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87y1ylmvu7.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <875ylxe98k.fsf@dataswamp.org> <878rqsyo1x.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87wneb690a.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qwjzqg5.fsf@web.de> <87o7zn65jp.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87ilpvd5s1.fsf@web.de> <87bkvn9x12.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87czg35n3g.fsf@web.de> <871qwif973.fsf@web.de> <87fskv9gm8.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87pmjxoev5.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87leuloe7v.fsf@dataswamp.org> <83pmjxljvq.fsf@gnu.org> <87bkvhob9w.fsf@dataswamp.org> <83leullhpi.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15902"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:92BsckEWPI/9AVRvkKfoqHXacm8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 28 19:07:20 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nuzuK-0003tz-HX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 May 2022 19:07:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52554 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuzuH-0008F6-8i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 May 2022 13:07:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40692) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuzsb-0008Ej-Sy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2022 13:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:52528) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuzsa-0000GH-2x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2022 13:05:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nuzsW-0001Rs-28 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2022 19:05:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137456 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> You evidently assume that a symlink is stored in some >>> particular way on disk, but the reality is different from >>> your assumption. What 'ls' and 'du' show you is largely >>> an illusion. >> >> Okay, where are they stored then? > > In the spare space of the inode, exactly as with small files. See > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/609474/actual-content-of-a-symlink-file Interesting, so it should say you can save a lot of spare inode space if you place your symlinks cleverly! Use ls(1) or du(1) to find out how big this illusory advantage is ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal