Two links to a directory?

Tom Kovar tom at itc.univie.ac.at
Tue Jun 25 18:19:38 AEST 1991


In article <2030 at 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



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