Re: Hard links to directories

2005-09-06 Thread Maximillian Murphy
Sorry Michael - I seem to have replied to you only. Here goes to the list... --- Support for multiple links to a directory has been in place in the past, I'm sure, I've used it. I'll have a look in a kernel book and see where this is implemented. At the moment I navigate usin

Re: Hard links to directories

2005-09-05 Thread Michael Spang
Hubert Chan wrote: On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 15:40:58 +0100 (BST), Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dear All, Is there a way of switching on permission to have hard links to directories? Is there a rationale for disallowing this? The Linux kernel VFS does not allow directory hard

Re: Hard links to directories

2005-09-04 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 15:40:58 +0100 (BST), Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Dear All, Is there a way of switching on permission to have hard links > to directories? > Is there a rationale for disallowing this? The Linux kernel VFS does not allow directory hard links for technical

Hard links to directories

2005-09-04 Thread Max
Dear All, Is there a way of switching on permission to have hard links to directories? Is there a rationale for disallowing this? What I'm trying to do is to set up my file system so that, rather as with apt-get, files and entire directories survive only as long as they are wanted. W