Also, I'm but confused by Sherm Pendley's mention of link and
unlink. I think he's assuming it is correct but needs a tortured
interpretation in order to reconcile it with our notion of what
should happen. Anyway, he's right that no copies are made.
That was essentially my assumption, yes - I'd assumed that the docs
were in some way correct, but written very badly, in a way that's
easy to misinterpret. It hadn't occurred to me that they might be
flat-out wrong - and I apologize to John Stiles for doubting him when
he pointed out that they are.
But also, no hard links are made, either. As someone else pointed
out, it is actually possible on HFS+ to detect whether or not a
file has ever had multiple links. Once it is multiply linked, it
acts forever differently, even if all but one of those links is
subsequently deleted.
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