Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Hard links to directories: why not? Message-ID: <.EV4M1A@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 23 Jul 90 22:36:00 GMT References: <5222@milton.u.washington.edu> <6940@eos.UUCP> <1990Jul19.115622.14015@mips2.cr.bull.com> <11070@alice.UUCP> <1990Jul22.175123.5323@athena.mit.edu> <837@ehviea.ine.philips.nl> <1990Jul23.181554.17938@dg-rtp.dg.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 7 In article <1990Jul23.181554.17938@dg-rtp.dg.com> goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes: > But what > does your scheme really buy that symlinks don't? It seems to me > that your non-primary hard links are just local symlinks in disguise, They can be implemented on a system that doesn't currently support symlinks without modifying the kernel. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`