Hard links to directories: why not?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1990Jul23.181554.17938 at dg-rtp.dg.com> goudreau at larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes:
> But what
> does your scheme really buy that symlinks don't?  It seems to me
> that your non-primary hard links are just local symlinks in disguise,

They can be implemented on a system that doesn't currently support symlinks
without modifying the kernel.
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