Hard links to directories: why not?

andrew.d.hay mvadh at cbnews.att.com
Thu Jul 19 21:33:49 AEST 1990


In article <6914 at umd5.umd.edu> rbn at umd5.umd.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
"And where whould you have .. point if you had multiple links to
"a directory?  Things would get pretty wierd.

to the first entry in the list of hard links, of course.
the tricky part would be remembering to update this when you unlink
the first entry...

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