link of directory

[Donald Lashomb]

In article <1989Dec14.210712.21973 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> bronsard at m.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Francois Bronsard) writes:
>I am using an unix system V that doesn't allow symbolic link to directory.
>I was told that I could get around that by using the system call link if I
>am root. However this will create an hard link, so I was also warned that
>this might be a dangerous idea. My question now is: How dangerous?
>Specifically I only want to add to my top directory a link to Filecabinet

I've been wonderring about much the same too.  I do know that the few times
I've played around with such things, fsck would report bad things about it.

And yeah, circlar links are definitely a no-no!

-Don