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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 19:19:21 +0200, Martin Krischik wrote:

> 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.

Show me *whatever* way to delete any of the references without deletion of
another.

But what about Ada.Directories?

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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