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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:44:15 +0200
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
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Subject: Re: FS: hardlinks on directories
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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.