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ln -d: allow the super-user to make hard links to directories, uh huh


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: ln -d: allow the super-user to make hard links to directories, uh huh
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:40:34 +0800
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$ info ln
`-d'
`-F'
`--directory'
     Allow the super-user to make hard links to directories.
$ ln --help
  -d, -F, --directory         hard link directories (super-user only)
$ man ln
       -d, -F, --directory
              hard link directories (super-user only)

Oh great, one spends hours tying to find what is wrong only to
discover,
$ info ln
On all existing implementations, you cannot make a hard link to a
directory, and hard links cannot cross filesystem boundaries.  (These
restrictions are not mandated by POSIX, however.)

Therefore, kindly say everywhere you say super-user only,
instead say "few systems, super-user only".




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