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Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]



On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 08:25:20AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> tomas writes:
> > Small anecdote: there was an old Linux distro (ISTR it was SuSE) where
> > something below /etc/init.d (or was it /etc/rc.d? It's a long while
> > ago) was a symlink to the parent directory, creating an infinite
> > hierarchy (or a circular reference, depending on how you squint).
> 
> On System III there was no restriction on hard links: you could create
> an an arbitrarily complex cyclic graph.

I know, I'm that old. In antediluvian Linux you could also hard link
directories,but only root was allowed to.

Most roors were smart enough not to do that :-)

> Fortunately, I backed up the system before experimenting with this.

The best way to learn, right?

Cheers
-- 
t

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