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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix System V link
Message-ID: <11967@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Jan 90 14:14:10 GMT
References: <1990Jan16.204355.13792@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1990Jan16.204355.13792@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> bronsard@m.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Francois Bronsard) writes:
>Now my question is : "How dangerous is it really?"

It's very dangerous, because when you rmdir one of the links
the other will no longer find . and .. entries in the directory.

Don't do it.