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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada.Directories
Date: 16 Nov 2007 12:47:34 -0600
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In article <1589560.JmWJu6PyXJ@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>> No, I still haven't got it. But because we don't have a workable 
>> definition of hard link, it just makes no sense to me to discuss it. And
>> even if we had, it were totally irrelevant to the issue of
>> Ada.Directories.
> 
> Sure we have. Each file is linked at least once and deleted if not.
> 
> I thought the discussion if about when a user is allowed to link / unlink
> what kind of file.
> 
> And that is simple - you are not allowed to link or unlink directories. rm
> is a high level command - try the low level "unlink" command and you will
> see that it won't unlink any directory. And on the other hand ln won't
> create links for directories. At least not on any unix I have come across.

But the title of this topic is not restricted to Unix.

On VMS you can certainly apply SET FILE/ENTER and SET FILE/REMOVE to
a directory.