Messages in this thread | | | From | jlnance@unity ... | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:50:33 -0400 | Subject | Re: FS: hardlinks on directories |
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:05:06PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> tar --dereference loops on symlinks _today_, to name an example. > All you have to do is to provide a way to find out if a directory is a > hardlink, nothing more. And that should be easy.
Actually I think that is the crux of the problem. If I do:
touch a ln a b
then a and b are both links to the same file. It is not like a is the real file and b is a link to it. The situation is indistinguishable from:
touch b ln b a
When you say that you want hardlinks to work on directories I believe people are making the assumption that you want this to hold true for directories as well. The difference between hardlinking directories and using symlinks or mount --bind is that there IS a difference between a directory and a link to the directory.
Thanks,
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