Re: FS: hardlinks on directories

Andries Brouwer
2003-08-04T13:44:18Z

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.