[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Fri Apr 24 17:35:21 EDT 2009


Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:
 
>> If a directory were hardlinked from multiple directories,
>> where would .. point?  Or is that the problem to be avoided?
 
> It's not allowed. Hard links to directories can't be created manually; 
> that could create a circular directory structure.

They could in SunOS 3.5, and it seems that they can in the
Linux system this news reader is running on.  (ln -d)

-- glen
 



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