Crossfire,
I have the testing version of coreutils(=4.5.2-1).
(from man ln)
-d, -F, --directory
hard link directories (super-user only)
# ln /tmp /tmp2
ln: `/tmp': hard link not allowed for directory
# ln --directory /tmp /tmp2
ln: creating hard link `/tmp2' to `/tmp': Operation not permitted
unstable provides coreutils 4.5.7-1, in which it must have been
fixed. Perhaps it's out of the manpage until they have finished
implementing it ;-)
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Crossfire wrote:
> Stalker, Doug was once rumoured to have said:
> >
> > How can I create a hardlink to a directory? ln promises to do it if I use
> > '--directory' as root, but I get permissions errors.
>
> You don't. For a start, --directory doesn't even exist in the ln on my
> Debian unstable box, which is a pretty good indicator that it doesn't exist.
>
> Secondly, Hardlinking directories is WRONG - to permit such an act would be
> insanely stupid due to the massive amount of damage that you could allow
> users to inadvertantly cause due to them not realising that the directory is
> a hardlink and trying to do something simple like a 'rm -rf' against it.
>
> Symlinks will suffice.
>
> Consult your friendly ln manpage for further (correct) information.
>
> C.
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