* [gentoo-user] why forbids making hard link for directory?
@ 2007-01-30 6:18 Shaochun Wang
2007-01-30 9:50 ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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From: Shaochun Wang @ 2007-01-30 6:18 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
I know it forbids making hardlink for directory in current filesystem,
but i don't know why? Can you tell me why?
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* Re: [gentoo-user] why forbids making hard link for directory?
2007-01-30 6:18 [gentoo-user] why forbids making hard link for directory? Shaochun Wang
@ 2007-01-30 9:50 ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner @ 2007-01-30 9:50 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:18:26PM +0800, Shaochun Wang wrote:
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> I know it forbids making hardlink for directory in current filesystem,
> but i don't know why? Can you tell me why?
You could make a cycle (like directory placed inside itself) that would
be undetectable and all the nice utils like find, grep -r, cp and so
would work forever traversing them.
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Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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