On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:15:48PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> although it is very likely I am entering (again :-) an ancient discussion I
> would like to ask why hardlinks on directories are not allowed/no supported fs
> action these days.
Quite a lot of software thinks that the file hierarchy is a tree,
if you wish a forest.
Things would break badly if the hierarchy became an arbitrary graph.
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