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Subject: Re: high # of hard links
In-Reply-To: <19970729081049.49771@futuresouth.com> from Tim Tsai at "Jul 29, 97 08:10:49 am"
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Tim Tsai writes:
> Is there any danger of having a high number of hard links to a file?
>
> Say, thousands?

I can't see any, as long as they are to a file.  I recall some code in
some UNIX dialects which tried to limit the number of links to 100.  I
questioned the wisdom of this, but I can't remember the explanation.

Greg