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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada.Directories
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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:

$ mkdir Test
$ ls -CFa Test
./ ../
$ <somehow unlink> Test/.
$ ls -CFa Test
../
$ <somehow unlink> Test/..
$ ls -CFa Test

Finally, as it should be from the very beginning! (:-))

[When links are reference counted, as IMO it is in Unix, then you obviously
cannot introduce cycles without ruining the file system.]

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de