Re: [gedit-list] Gedit and Hard Links

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

On ven, 2007-03-02 at 12:06 +1300, Oran Fry wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 

Hi Oran,

	sorry for the delay replaying, but I have been very busy and I am
catching up on email just now...

> I am having problems editing a file which has more than one hard link to 
> it on disk. The problem seems to come from the fact that the backup file 
> is not another physical copy of the file, but the original file itself! 
> And the file being edited is the copy. To demonstrate, I ran these commands:
> 

<snip description of the problem>

> $ gedit --version
> Gnome gedit 2.10.3
> 

This problem has been addressed in gedit 2.14.X and newer, so the
solution is to upgrade.

ciao
	Paolo

> Thanks,
> Oran.