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by jholman 1611 days ago
> Similar to symlinks, but arguably less hacky, because there is no differentiation between "actual" location and "linked" location.

In other words, similar to hardlinks

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Right, yes. True. I should have compared with hardlinks instead.

Minor detail: I intended for different deletion semantics from hardlinks. Whereas hardlinks use reference counting for that (only the last deletion actually deletes); for my purposes, delete anywhere meant delete everywhere.