Understanding Symbolic and Hard Links, and Building Static and Shared Libraries on Linux
Symbolic and Hard Links
A symbolic link (soft link) is an independent file with its own inode and inode number. It merely stores the path to the target file. If the target is deleted and replaced by a new file with the same name, the symbolic link will point to the replacement. A hard link, on the other hand, is not a separate file; it shares t ...
Posted on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:48:15 +0000 by DrTom