MacPorts 2.3.2 and "port provides"

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

----- On 5 Mar, 2015, at 12:57, Jan Stary hans at stare.cz wrote:

> The /private thing seems to be a more general MacOS thing.
> Sorry for the OT, but can someone please elaborate?

I don't know why it exists, but a couple of top-level directories
are symlinked into /private.


> For example,
> 
>  $ vi /tmp/foo
> 
> creates "/tmp/foo" (obviously), but once I save it (:w),
> it gets saved as "/private/tmp/foo"; at that moment,
> there are two hardlinks for the same inode:
> 
>  $ ls -li /tmp/foo /private/tmp/foo
>  15307909 -rw-r--r--  1 hans  wheel  6 Mar  5 12:55 /private/tmp/foo
>  15307909 -rw-r--r--  1 hans  wheel  6 Mar  5 12:55 /tmp/foo

Those aren't hardlinks, but /tmp is a symlink to /private/tmp. Your
vim just happens to realpath(3) before saving, it seems.

See:
  $ ls -ld /tmp

-- 
Clemens Lang