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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: toolpath wanted in workbench 1.4
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Date: 5 Sep 89 15:24:59 GMT
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In article <19465@gryphon.COM> ddave@pnet02.gryphon.com (David Donley) writes:
>fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
>>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...
>On HP-UX systems you have to be superuser to link directories.
Well, i know the manual says you can as root, my memory is that
v6 kernel code and later forbode (forbade?) it, so you got me.
My memory is clearly missing some bits.
Anyway, on a sunos system, here is a transcript:
super# ln bin binxxx
bin is a directory
super# 
note that i was running as root. HP-UX, depending on the machine, is
not a real unix derivative (i.e. the 500 series). 
Boy, unix is really losing it fast as a standard ...
Sorry for the digression from Unix too. But it should now be clear
that we don't want hard links in Amigados????
Personally, i think hard links to directorys are Evil. 
Read the BSTJ on Unix (1978) for a comment on such things.
ron