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link farm
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [Unix] A directory tree that contains many links to files in a master
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directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining
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several nearly identical copies of the same source tree for example, when
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the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. Let's freeze the
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source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms. Link farms
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may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of -I
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(include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they
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can also get completely out of hand, becoming the filesystem equivalent of
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spaghetti code. See also farm.
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