From: fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank T Lofaro) Subject: Re: PATCH: (0.98.6) allow root to link/unlink directories Date: 16 Dec 1992 18:58:23 GMT
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux: 16-Dec-92 Re: PATCH: (0.98.6) allow
r.. Paul Hatchman@socs.uts.e (820)
>It recreates the source directory structure under your home directory
>by hard linking directories.
>Still it is nothing that cant be done with a symlink.
But if you delete where a symlink points to, you have a worthless,
dangling symlink (*). A hard link would allow you to delete the source
from its original location if no longer needed there, but leave the copy
in your account untouched.
* Does Linux still have the dangling symlink bug. Like, if you do ln -s
some_file_name_that_does_not_exist foo, does a cat foo say "Too many
levels of symbolic links", instead of "No such file or directory" or
some other appropriate message? Just thought I'd mention it, in case the
bug is still lurking out there.