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Re: hard link to directories
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: hard link to directories |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:40:11 +0100 |
Heinz-Josef Claes <address@hidden> wrote:
> the man page of the ln command
> (ln (coreutils) 5.0 March 2003 LN(1))
> says:
>
>
> -d, -F, --directory
> hard link directories (super-user only)
>
> I tried to do this:
>
> # mkdir a
> # ln -F a b
> ln: creating hard link `b' to `a': Operation not permitted
Right. Few (no?) modern file systems allow hard links to directories.
Here's what --help says with the version from CVS:
-d, -F, --directory allow the superuser to attempt to hard link
directories (note: will probably fail due to
system restrictions, even for the superuser)