Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:44:15 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: FS: hardlinks on directories |
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:15:48PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> although it is very likely I am entering (again :-) an ancient discussion I > would like to ask why hardlinks on directories are not allowed/no supported fs > action these days.
Quite a lot of software thinks that the file hierarchy is a tree, if you wish a forest.
Things would break badly if the hierarchy became an arbitrary graph.
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