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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: toolpath wanted in workbench 1.4
Message-ID: <221@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 89 03:45:29 GMT
References: <1410027@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> <8382@etana.tut.fi> <4147@sugar.hackercorp.com> <13757@super.ORG>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.
Lines: 47

In article <13757@super.ORG> rminnich@super.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>In article <4147@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>In article <8382@etana.tut.fi>, pl@etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti) writes:
>>> 	Guess why Unix doesn't allow you make hard links to directories.
>>But it does.
>huh? The last version of Unix that allowed you to was long ago. I just
>tried it here on my sun and it won't let me. 
>What kinda Unix you got out there, peter?

This is not exactly related to the Amiga but here goes anyway.  This
is on SCO Xenix 2.3.1, and should work on probably any Unix, including
a Sun...

Script started [typescript] at Sun Sep  3 20:41:31 1989
# cat junk.c
main ()
{
    system ("mkdir junk");
    link ("junk", "junk2");
}
# cc junk.c
# ./a.out
# ls -lid junk*
 1805 drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root          32 Sep  3 20:41 junk
 1998 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          61 Sep  3 20:38 junk.c
 1805 drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root          32 Sep  3 20:41 junk2
(note inode numbers of 1805 show that junk and junk2 are links to the
 same directory)
# date >junk/file
# ls -li junk junk2

junk:
total 2
 1949 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          29 Sep  3 20:42 file

junk2:
total 2
 1949 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          29 Sep  3 20:42 file
# rm junk/*
# ls junk
# ls junk2
# rmdir junk junk2
# exit
Script ended [typescript] at Sun Sep  3 20:42:31 1989
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