mxcl/homebrew — pull request #17134 by dragonfax (2013-01-17 05:27:46+00:00)
Title: add formula for 'hardlink' package

The hardlink package is a single command (written in c) that lets the osx user create actual hardlinks on the system.

Apple has remove true hard-link capability from 'ln' and every other shell accessable command on the system. This command restores the capability again, thus letting you create true hard-links (as opposed to symbolic links).

Even though the man page for 'ln' on osx 10.8 specifics it still creates hard-links by default, its a complete and utter lie. Fortunately the c ABI for creating these links is still in place.

Also note that an unlink command is also provided. As using rm -r will end up clearing out the symlinked directory. Which is rarely the desired effect.