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From: tom@itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Two links to a directory?
Keywords: links,SysV,directory
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Date: 25 Jun 91 08:19:38 GMT
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In article <2030@tssi.UUCP> tssi!nolan writes:
>Browsing around on my NCR Tower (SVR2) trying to solve a problem with lock
>files not being deleted by uucico, I discovered that there appear to be two
>links to a directory, although I had thought that was not permitted in unix.
>(multiple file links, yes, but not multiple directory links)

  Not so fully true. The superuser may generate directory hard links (see
link(2v)); if not, it would not be possible to have the . and .. entries
in the directory :-)
							Tom