Hard links to directories: why not?

[Kartik Subbarao]

In article <6914 at umd5.umd.edu> rbn at umd5.umd.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
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>And where whould you have .. point if you had multiple links to
>a directory?  Things would get pretty wierd.
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>-Ron

Now, why could we not have .. point to a table which listed all the directories
above it?






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