hard links for directories ?

[Tim Traver]

Greg,

Well, specifically, I'm trying to link some directories inside a chrooted 
environment...

THe filesystem also happens to be an nfs mounted one, so I know the files 
to be linked would have to be on the same volume, and separate systems deal 
with the filesystem integrity (NetApp)...

So, how would you do this kind of thing ?

Tim.


At 10:24 PM 8/16/2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>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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