Re: directory hardlinks

[Ross A Knepper <rak zk3 dec com>]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Jukka Iso-Heiniemi wrote:
>  This is not alpha spesific, but still... has anybody
>  know how to get hardlinks to work with directories (or what
>  is proper mail list to ask for); ... and yes, I really need
>  hardlinks for directories.

you can't.  true, you could hack the code to make it work.  but you really
shouldnt.  hard links for directories are semantically ambiguous.  for
instance, if you "cd ..", which directory do you end up in?  there's a
good reason that unix has never had hard links to directories ...

 -ross