Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:13:27 -0600 | Subject | Re: CLONE_NAMESPACE, links for dirs and mount(2) for normal users questions | From | Peter Samuelson <> |
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[Remi Turk] > Do I understand correctly that this means hardlinks to directories > (except . and ..) are fundamentally impossible in Linux?
Why do you want to be able to do that? Use symlinks or loopback mounts and stay out of trouble.
> (I'm thinking about trying to write a garbage collected filesystem > with hardlinks to directories.)
Sounds like a lot of extra complexity. Is this academic or do you have a practical use for it?
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