Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!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: Date: 2 Aug 90 11:55:17 GMT References: <5222@milton.u.washington.edu> <6940@eos.UUCP> <1990Jul30.153949.28122@dg-rtp.dg.com> <11110@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 In article <11110@alice.UUCP> andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes: > if it were true, it would be a bummer. luckily, i couldn't > find a system where the example failed. Since we're talking about a hypothetical system where mkdir, rmdir, find, ln, rm, and a few other application programs have been modified to make links to directories "safe", not a real system, this is pretty much irrelevant. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`