Hard links to directories: why not?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1990Jul20.100456.20995 at jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps at dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
> The fact that with symlinks, the real (hard) link is given a higher status
> than the symbolic link. With two hard links, there's no local strategy which
> follows only one, except for otherwise distinguishable cases like `.' and
> `..'.

Sure, tell find not to follow a directory if the inode of "foo/.." is not
the inode of ".". (i.e., treat it as a symbolic link)
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