From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,96296bb60aa5db9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!62.111.101.3.MISMATCH!news.germany.com!newsfeed.utanet.at!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed02.chello.at!news.hispeed.ch.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-Id: <2165118.4ngU9Lv3xq@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: Ada.Directories Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:19:21 +0200 References: <1o4hp0vtlenw0.jql7yewhhr4a.dlg@40tude.net> <1192912525.922514.185180@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <411h1vmet9dh$.uij5asq361ds$.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@hispeed.ch Organization: hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.75.167.107 (84.75.167.107) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:30:05 +0200 X-Trace: e1bcc471b8c9df1ee02ce31080 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2523 Date: 2007-10-21T19:19:21+02:00 List-Id: 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 -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com