On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you can find an OS API that supports it, there's nothing preventing > their use. For that matter, I once worked with a System III that would > happily allow root to replace . and .. And in a similar vein, HFS+ allows hard links to directories, which is a good way to confuse your filesystem on must Unixes (and therefore prevented by the OS). OS X also allows use of this feature(?), but may restrict it in recent versions. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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