On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 08:25:20AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > tomas writes: > > Small anecdote: there was an old Linux distro (ISTR it was SuSE) where > > something below /etc/init.d (or was it /etc/rc.d? It's a long while > > ago) was a symlink to the parent directory, creating an infinite > > hierarchy (or a circular reference, depending on how you squint). > > On System III there was no restriction on hard links: you could create > an an arbitrarily complex cyclic graph.
I know, I'm that old. In antediluvian Linux you could also hard link directories,but only root was allowed to. Most roors were smart enough not to do that :-) > Fortunately, I backed up the system before experimenting with this. The best way to learn, right? Cheers -- t
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
