On Aug 17, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Root is the only one allowed to make hard links to directories.
This is not correct. root has no special powers here.
OK, I'm a bit out of date and stand corrected. IIRC fsck used link(2)
to reconnect an inode as a directory sometimes. man
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On Wednesday, 18 August 2004 at 21:11:52 -0500, David Kelly wrote:
On Aug 17, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Root is the only one allowed to make hard links to directories.
This is not correct. root has
On Aug 17, 2004, at 12:24 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Monday, 16 August 2004 at 22:02:11 -0700, Tim Traver wrote:
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
, 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
On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 9:55:03 -0500, David Kelly wrote:
On Aug 17, 2004, at 12:24 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Monday, 16 August 2004 at 22:02:11 -0700, Tim Traver wrote:
This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to make hard links
to
directories ??? I know you can
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 ?
Thanks,
Tim.
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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
