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  From: Richard Russell <richardrussell@internode.on.net>
  To  : <rsharpe@ns.aus.com>
  Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 23:03:40 +0930

RE: Basic NFS Question

> More specifically, the link call refuses to link to a directory.
> Symlinks were born as a way to link across file systems (since hard
> links use the inode number, they are, perforce, constrained to linking
> objects on the same file system) and to link to directories.


hmmm -- I never knew that links wouldn't link dirs... interesting... why is
this? (I understand why you can't link across fs's)...


rr

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