Solaris

hi zazzybob,

Code:

$ ln ldap foo
ln: `ldap': hard link not allowed for directory

thats hardlink you created, try ln -s ldap foo - thats a softlink.
and i've got a ln --help actually

cheers

I'm aware of what I was creating, thanks. I was responding to porter, who said "Who says you can't hardlink directories" - I was proving this to be the case.

I must admit I'm surprised you can't, especially when a directory is nothing more than a file with a list of inodes and filenames. I checked Darwin, Linux, Solaris and AIX, all agree, you can't hard link directories. I presume this is because of the ".." entry which needs the inode of the parent, and technically and hard-linked directory would have two parents. But then also consider that "." and ".." actually are hard-links to directories.

Back to the original problem, is it due to the spelling mistake of substituting an "0" for an "o"?

You can in come cases hard link directories, but only by using the link system call. No version of the ln command that I know of will allow this to be done. Here is what the SPEC had to say about link();

Hi,

Your problem is resolved or no ,becs i am also suffering from the same ?????