- From: Chris Kaler <ckaler@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:42:25 -0800
- To: "'ccjason@us.ibm.com'" <ccjason@us.ibm.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
The question of what does COPYing a link mean is an interesting one. It has been a while since I used UNIX, so I don't recall how copy behaves. However, on Windows, if you copy a link then you have copied the link. Saves to the link go to the original file. This seems really intuitive to me because the link has a glyphette that differentiates the link from the original. On the other side of the coin, it is not unreasonable to expect the "share and branch" semantics that VSS provides. That is, you copy and when you update you sever the link. I guess my initial feeling is that COPYing a link does just that and if we want to have a "copy on write" semantics, then we use a separate method or special form of COPY. Chris
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