Two links to a directory?

[Geoff Clare]

tom at itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar) writes:

>   The superuser may generate directory hard links (see
>link(2v)); if not, it would not be possible to have the . and .. entries
>in the directory :-)

Not true.  The links to . and .. can be created by a mkdir() system call,
in which case there is no need for link() to be able to link directories.
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