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From: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Two links to a directory?
Keywords: links,SysV,directory
Message-ID: <2751@root44.co.uk>
Date: 28 Jun 91 11:51:47 GMT
References: <2030@tssi.UUCP> <1991Jun25.081938.25505@swdsrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
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tom@itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar) writes:

>   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 :-)

Not true.  The links to . and .. can be created by a mkdir() system call,
in which case there is no need for link() to be able to link directories.
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