On 03/08/11 16:22, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-08-03, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I suppose it is a good thing systems don't allow that now. > > It wouldn't be a problem, except there are some important places in > Unix where it is assume that filesystems are trees. Hard linking > directories causes that assumption to be false. >
It is generally assumed that ".." is clearly defined, i.e. that every directory has a parent. With hard linked directories, this would break down. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
