Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:54:03 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard links for directories ? Message-ID: <20040817052403.GE88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20040816220030.04148ec0@mail1.simplenet.com> References: <6.1.2.0.0.20040816220030.04148ec0@mail1.simplenet.com>
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--f61P+fpdnY2FZS1u Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --f61P+fpdnY2FZS1u Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBIZZzIubykFB6QiMRAjOIAJ9Vu3ozP5qy76ZdqolmLk6Sq8ViMQCcCU0/ xuoj+WAr6UAXc4FSMO8Vrao= =xhyb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f61P+fpdnY2FZS1u--
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