On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Thomas Jollans <t...@jollybox.de> wrote: >> >> On 02/08/11 11:32, loial wrote: >> > I am trying to hardlink all files in a directory structure using >> > os.link. >> > >> > However I do not think it is possible to hard link directories ? > > That is pretty true. I've heard of hardlinked directories on Solaris, but > that's kind of an exception to the general rule. >
In APUE, Richard Stevens says only root could do this, if it is supported by the system at all. In a footnote, he additionally mentions he screwed up his filesystem by creating a loop of hardlinked directories while writing that section of the book. I suppose it is a good thing systems don't allow that now. -- regards, kushal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
