hard links for directories ?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 16 August 2004 at 22:02:11 -0700, Tim Traver wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to make hard links to
> directories ??? I know you can with files, and normally, you would do a
> soft link for directories, but is there any way to finagle this ?

Sure, there are ways.  But why would you want to?

A link to a directory makes it a subdirectory of the directory
containing the link.  If you have two links to a directory, where
should the directory's .. link point?  How would fsck know what to do?

Greg
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