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Re: Hard links to directories

Subject: Re: Hard links to directories
From: Michael Smith <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:54:27 -0700


On Oct 1, 2008, at 7:25 PM, Chris Idou wrote:

OS-X 10.5 now allows you to hard link directories.

"allows" is probably the wrong way to describe this. "Fails to prevent" is more correct.

Don't hardlink directories. Yes, the system call succeeds. No, it doesn't work the way you think it should, and that's not considered a problem.

 = Mike

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