Re: Hard Links

["Nathan J . Mehl" <memory@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the immortal words of Jean Francois Martinez
(jfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> "Quang Nguyen (Ngo)" wrote:
> > 
> > If I remember correctly, NextStep did provide hardlinks to
> > directories.  I wonder if OSX's native FS does support them.
> > Anyway, I'm writing a backup utility, so I thought I might need to
> > pay attention to them in case, they're there.
> 
> The fact NextStep allowed it doesn't meant it was good thing.

OSX 10.1.1 appears to not support hardlinks to directories, at least
on HFS+ filesystems.  No clue about how OSX behaves on UFS in this
regard.

-n

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