Who are you guys?

[quirkyusername]

Great idea for a thread =)

21, English, final year university student. Games I've made range from snake, tetris etc to a 2d space shooter to a quite crappy 3D shooter made with Direct3D. This year my course includes producing a 2d game demo for the gp2x, a 2d online multiplayer game in java, although I'm far better at c++ than java, and my own choice, using Direct3D again, an isometric hack and slash set in a dungeon. I enjoy what I do, but this year there's just not enough time!!! >:(

I don't really know any other languages other than (sort of) C# from a brief period using XNA.

[Albatross]

@rocketboy

Oh?
If so, in that case, never mind. @.@

-Albatross

[ne555]

This is my datasheet http://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/23384/STMICROELECTRONICS/NE555/+Q3_85UORlHDyRHOIpa/1XXyxeocTlLM+/datasheet.pdf
[edit] http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ne555.pdf [/edit]

chrisname wrote:

Through a combination of poor understanding of hard links in Linux filesystems and what happens when you use rm instead of unlink

Before I make something stupid, what is the difference?

[Seraphimsan]

rm removes a file, unlink just unlinks them

[ne555]

If you rm a hardlink, you just lose that link. If there are anothers the file is not lost.
If you unlink a file, you remove the last name, and the file is lost.

What am I missing?

[cran]

rm calls unlink if I remember correctly. rm is a shell command while unlink is the command in unix... I think anyway, hold on... ok, check out this page:

http://fixunix.com/unix/84165-what-difference-between-unlink-rm.html

[chrisname]

No, when you rm a hardlink, it deletes the file proper (maybe that's only if it is the last hardlink, I don't know because I only made one hardlink). If you rm a soft/symbolic link, it deletes the link but keeps the file.

@craniumonempty,
unlink is both a system call and a shell command.