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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Hard Links Between Directories
Date: 5 Jul 1993 18:00:07 +0200
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH, Dresden, Germany
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Message-ID: <219j67INNa8u@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
References: <1693180.80035.807@status.gen.nz> <1993Jul2.081008.19247@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
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Keywords: Links
In article <1993Jul2.081008.19247@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes:
>You probably don't really want to have hard links between directories.
>This will make the file structure not tree-like any more. Programs like
>find, fsck, du, tar, which -normally- exploit the tree structure are going to
>lose their function.
In fact, i've also tried it. (The -f option for ln lets you force it.)
After doing so, i had to create an own utility (like SVR's unlink(1))
to remove them since they're *totally useless*. Unfortunately, though
there's an undocumented -f in ln(1), there's no comparable option
in rm :-((
So: you got it, can't use it, now see how to get rid of them:-)
[Btw., if you don't believe it, try the ln -f, put some file beneath one
of the double-linked dir's, and then attempt to rm -f them. You're stuck.]
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