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broken hard links
Authored by: sjk on May 13, '04 12:49:34AM

I noticed that after installing one of the 10.3.x updates (.2 or .3) /bin/bash and /bin/sh were no longer hard linked, nor were other files in /bin and /usr/bin that previously had been. I'm convinced it's a side effect of installing certain dot-release updates (which I also noticed between some 10.2 releases), but it didn't happen with 10.3.1. My unconfirmed suspicion is that under certain conditions update_prebinding is responsible for making separate versions of system binaries that were originally hard linked.



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