Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:43:12 +1000 | From | Peter Chubb <> | Subject | Re: what is necessary for directory hard links |
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>>>>> "Horst" == Horst H von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:
Horst> Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de> wrote:
>> This feature was implemented,
Horst> Never in my memory of any Unix (and lookalike) system in real Horst> use (I've seen a few).
Back in edition 5 UNIX, there were /etc/link and /etc/unlink that could operate on directories, if and only if you were root. I used to use them to deliberately muck up file systems for system administration courses...
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