MacPorts 2.3.2 and "port provides"

[Daniel J. Luke]

> On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz> wrote:
> On Mar 05 09:17:22, allbery.b at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz> wrote:
>>>> Those aren't hardlinks, but /tmp is a symlink to /private/tmp. Your
>>>> vim just happens to realpath(3) before saving, it seems.
>>> 
>>> It's not a symlink, they have the same inode number.
>>> A symlink would look like this:
>> 
>> Your observation would be valid if the file /tmp/whatever were symlinked.
>> But it's not that specific file, but the directory /tmp that is symlinked.
> 
> Right. Thanks.
> Anyway, does anyone know why this even exists?

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/1043/why-is-tmp-a-symlink-to-private-tmp

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