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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote:

> 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.

When you show me a definition that this is a necessary criterion for
s.th. being a hard link. Again: Meditate about 'ls -i' and apply to
directories.

- M