Symlinks already present

Richard Damon Richard at Damon-Family.org
Mon Aug 31 14:55:52 EDT 2020


On 8/31/20 1:07 PM, Barry Scott wrote:
>
> I'm intrigued.
>
> How are you adding a second path that shows this mutating ".." ?
> I tried with a symlink and that did not change the ".." inode.
> Do you mean that I can do this with a bind mount?
>
> Barry
>
This is based on a hypothetical OS that allows creating hard-links to
directories, just like to files. Because current *nix system don't do it
this way, they don't allow hard-links to directories because it does
cause this sort of issue.

-- 
Richard Damon



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