On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:34, Jan Schmidt wrote: > <quote who="Matthew Davidson"> > > However, I maintain that's the way it _should_ work! > > That's the way hard links work, but they can only link within the same file > system.
But you shouldn't add hard links to directories. The ln utility will only let root even try it, and there's a fairly good chance the filesystem won't let you. I can't remember why it's a problem without a reference handy. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html