Re: ln -F

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Luca Ferrari wrote:

> from the manual page of ln I saw that the -F option should grant to root the 
> capability to create hard link between directories. I believe this is a good 
> feature if the directories are on the same partition, but each time I tried 
> to do it iI was unable: Operation not permitted.
> Can anybody explain me why?

Most modern Unices, including Linux, disallow the creation of hard
links to directories, even for root.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@xxxxxxxxxx>
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