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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Ada.Directories
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:19:21 +0200
Date: 2007-10-21T19:19:21+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2165118.4ngU9Lv3xq@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 411h1vmet9dh$.uij5asq361ds$.dlg@40tude.net

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:05:57 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> 
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> 
>>> "." is not a hard/soft link,
>> 
>> On a Unix system it is a hard link.
> 
> AFAIK, no, because you cannot unlink it:

That's because most Unix file systems won't allow hard links to directories
to be *manually* created and therefore also disallow them to be *manually*
deleted.

But a ban on manual creation and deletion won't mean they could not be
created automatically or implicitly.

Martin

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-21 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-20  9:21 Ada.Directories Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-20 18:43 ` Ada.Directories anon
2007-10-20 19:40   ` Ada.Directories Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-20 20:35     ` Ada.Directories Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-21  7:40       ` Ada.Directories Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-21 13:05         ` Ada.Directories Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-10-21 13:26           ` Ada.Directories Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-21 15:29             ` Ada.Directories Markus E L
2007-10-21 15:38             ` Ada.Directories Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-10-21 17:19             ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2007-10-21 18:52               ` Ada.Directories Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-21 20:32                 ` Ada.Directories Markus E L
2007-10-21 23:52         ` Ada.Directories Robert A Duff
2007-10-22 11:08         ` Ada.Directories Harald Korneliussen
2007-11-15 11:44           ` Ada.Directories Markus E L
2007-11-16 13:27             ` Ada.Directories Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-16 16:48               ` Ada.Directories Martin Krischik
2007-11-16 18:47                 ` Ada.Directories Larry Kilgallen
2007-11-16 20:35                   ` Ada.Directories Martin Krischik
2007-11-16 19:00                 ` Ada.Directories Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-21  1:25     ` Ada.Directories anon
2007-10-20 22:36   ` Ada.Directories Larry Kilgallen
2007-10-22 18:56 ` Ada.Directories Adam Beneschan
2007-10-23  9:04   ` Ada.Directories Peter Hermann
2007-10-23 12:07     ` Ada.Directories Larry Kilgallen
2007-10-23 13:01       ` Ada.Directories Peter Hermann
2007-10-23 16:08       ` Ada.Directories Robert A Duff
2007-10-23 17:11         ` Ada.Directories Larry Kilgallen
2007-10-24  0:55   ` Ada.Directories Brian May
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