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From: mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
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Subject: Re: Hard links to directories: why not?
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Date: 19 Jul 90 11:33:49 GMT
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In article <6914@umd5.umd.edu> rbn@umd5.umd.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
"And where whould you have .. point if you had multiple links to
"a directory?  Things would get pretty wierd.

to the first entry in the list of hard links, of course.
the tricky part would be remembering to update this when you unlink
the first entry...

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