RE: IFS links

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> By "soft" links, I assume you mean symbolic links.

Yes, Scott.  Both "soft link" (as I used) and "symlink" (as you used) are
recognized synonyms for symbolic links.  When differentiating between the
hard and the other, "hard" and "soft" make a clearer statement, IMO.

> Since symlinks can cross file systems, if you decide to use 'find' to
> search for all symlinks, make sure you account for the possibility that
> they might cross file systems, and search everything.
>
> (Which can take an extremely long time, in my experience)

Absolutely agreed!  On any platform!

Dennis Lovelady
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