In article <1990Jan16.204355.13792 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> bronsard at m.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Francois Bronsard) writes: >Now my question is : "How dangerous is it really?" It's very dangerous, because when you rmdir one of the links the other will no longer find . and .. entries in the directory. Don't do it.