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hard link improvement for gzip (wishlist item)

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From: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel <at> aixigo.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 42620 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42620: hard link improvement for gzip (wishlist item)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:44:38 +0200

On 2020-07-31 08:26, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Looking at a file with n references by hard links:
> 
> n=1 is the trivial case. No changes needed.
> 
> All involved directories are read-only: Another trivial case
> to be ignored here.
> 
> For n>1:
> 
> I would suggest that the file is compressed and the directory
> entries are adjusted accordingly, if the directories can be
> written.
> 
PS: All paths to the file have to be given on the gzip command line,
of course. I don't expect gzip to search for all references.


Regards
Harri

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