Re: hard link a directory

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I just usually add the '-s' flag to my ln's, and it seems to work.
Sometimes I add '-snf' just because it's more fun to type.

Peter
Andreas Rogge wrote:
You can't.
Ken Thompson decided that this complicates things too much so this was
disabled back in the 70ies.
You can however do a
mount --bind /var/spool /home/recordings
this has a quite similar effect.

Regards,
Andreas Rogge

Am Freitag, den 12.01.2007, 05:50 +0800 schrieb Mark Quitoriano:
Hi im trying to hard link a folder and i get this

# ln /var/spool /home/recordings
ln: `/var/spool': hard link not allowed for directory

how do i hard link a directory?
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