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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!ifado!wb From: wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) Subject: Re: Hard Links Between Directories Message-ID: <1993Jul2.081008.19247@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> Keywords: Links Organization: Institut f. Arbeitsphysiologie a.d. Uni Dortmund References: <1693180.80035.807@status.gen.nz> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 93 08:10:08 GMT Lines: 15 In article <1693180.80035.807@status.gen.nz> craigw@status.gen.nz (Craig Whitmore,My Amazing Amiga ,A500,649-292-4859) writes: >Can someone tell me how to make hard links between directories? The man >about ln says quote: >"...Hard Links may not refer to directories (unless the proper incantations >are supplied)..." > >But what are the proper incantations??? Please help me!! 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. -- Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke, Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257