ln -F

Hi,
from the manual page of ln I saw that the -F option should grant to root the
capability to create hard link between directories. I believe this is a good
feature if the directories are on the same partition, but each time I tried
to do it iI was unable: Operation not permitted.
Can anybody explain me why?

Thanks,
Luca



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Re: ln -F

Luca Ferrari wrote:

> from the manual page of ln I saw that the -F option should grant to root the
> capability to create hard link between directories. I believe this is a good
> feature if the directories are on the same partition, but each time I tried
> to do it iI was unable: Operation not permitted.
> Can anybody explain me why?

Most modern Unices, including Linux, disallow the creation of hard
links to directories, even for root.

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