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| From: | Michal 'vorner' Vaner <michal.vaner@×××××××.net> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] why forbids making hard link for directory? | ||
| Date: | Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:56:45 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20070130095031.GA24136@tarantula | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] why forbids making hard link for directory? by Shaochun Wang |
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| 1 | On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:18:26PM +0800, Shaochun Wang wrote: |
| 2 | > |
| 3 | > I know it forbids making hardlink for directory in current filesystem, |
| 4 | > but i don't know why? Can you tell me why? |
| 5 | |
| 6 | You could make a cycle (like directory placed inside itself) that would |
| 7 | be undetectable and all the nice utils like find, grep -r, cp and so |
| 8 | would work forever traversing them. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | -- |
| 11 | There's the light at the end of the the Windows. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | -- Havlik Denis |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Michal 'vorner' Vaner |