Why I have two same executable files for running emacs?

Why I have two same executable files for running emacs?

[Ronald]

Why I have two same executable files for running emacs?

-rwxr-xr-t 2 root root 8365030 2006-12-21 15:08 emacs
-rwxr-xr-t 2 root root 8365030 2006-12-21 15:08 emacs-22.0.92

Do you?

Re: Why I have two same executable files for running emacs?

[Joost Kremers]

Ronald wrote:
> Why I have two same executable files for running emacs?
>
> -rwxr-xr-t 2 root root 8365030 2006-12-21 15:08 emacs
> -rwxr-xr-t 2 root root 8365030 2006-12-21 15:08 emacs-22.0.92
>
> Do you?

yup. they're not two files, though, they're one and the same file that has
two different names referring to it. you can do this by creating a hard
link.

if you do `ls -il emacs*' in the directory where emacs is residing, you'll
see that they have the same inode number, which makes it the same file:

joost@teuctli:/usr/local/bin # ls -il emacs* 
3071276 -rwxr-xr-t 2 root root 7703867 2006-12-11 03:21 emacs*
3071276 -rwxr-xr-t 2 root root 7703867 2006-12-11 03:21 emacs-22.0.91*
3071271 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   30475 2006-12-11 03:21 emacsclient*


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