-----Original Message----- From: Crossfire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Creating hard Links to directories]
> Patrick Lesslie was once rumoured to have said: > > unstable provides coreutils 4.5.7-1, in which it must have been fixed. > > Perhaps it's out of the manpage until they have finished implementing > > it ;-) > Hopefully they took the idiot who added it in the first place out the back > and shot him. It would save the rest of us a lot of pain caused by all the > idiots who used it without realising the consequences. >It should never be implemented. Ever. Its fundamentally wrong. After reading of the potential problems, I'm now convinced it's a Very Bad Idea to hardlink directories. As a workaround I'll create the directories manually and hard-link the files in them - that will fix the problem without causing massive filesystem corruption. Thanks all. - Doug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
