tomas writes: > Small anecdote: there was an old Linux distro (ISTR it was SuSE) where > something below /etc/init.d (or was it /etc/rc.d? It's a long while > ago) was a symlink to the parent directory, creating an infinite > hierarchy (or a circular reference, depending on how you squint).
On System III there was no restriction on hard links: you could create an an arbitrarily complex cyclic graph. Fortunately, I backed up the system before experimenting with this. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA