From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 05:24:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA5D16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:24:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE49743D48 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:24:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A5152BD9F for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:24:05 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DAE07511FA; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:54:03 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:54:03 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Tim Traver Message-ID: <20040817052403.GE88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <6.1.2.0.0.20040816220030.04148ec0@mail1.simplenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="f61P+fpdnY2FZS1u" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20040816220030.04148ec0@mail1.simplenet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard links for directories ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:24:08 -0000 --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--