Re: hard links for directories ?

From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey (grog_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 08/17/04

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To: Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com>

    On Monday, 16 August 2004 at 22:02:11 -0700, Tim Traver wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >
    > This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to make hard links to
    > directories ??? I know you can with files, and normally, you would do a
    > soft link for directories, but is there any way to finagle this ?

    Sure, there are ways. But why would you want to?

    A link to a directory makes it a subdirectory of the directory
    containing the link. If you have two links to a directory, where
    should the directory's .. link point? How would fsck know what to do?

    Greg 

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