Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir | Date | 16 Nov 2000 14:35:53 -0800 |
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Followup to: <4.3.2.7.2.20001116161327.00b2f810@postoffice.brown.edu> By author: David Feuer <David_Feuer@brown.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > . and foo/. are also links, not directories... the directories themselves > are filesystem internal objects, and not discussed by the standard. I > didn't know that linux supported hard links to directories... Isn't that > just asking for trouble? >
It is on filesystems which has ".." physically on disk. Linux no longer requires this, although for example ext2 does have this.
I don't believe it's inherently impossible in Linux anymore. In fact, vfsbinds provide a lot of the same kind of functionality; the main difference between vfsbinds and hard links are that the former (a) can cross filesystem boundaries and (b) aren't persistent.
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