On 04May2010 14:48, Baz Walter <baz...@ftml.net> wrote: | On 04/05/10 09:08, Gregory Ewing wrote: | >Grant Edwards wrote: | >>except that Python objects can form a generalized graph, and Unix | >>filesystems are constrained to be a tree. | > | >Actually I believe that root is allowed to create arbitrary | >hard links to directories in Unix, so it's possible to turn | >the file system in to a general graph. It's highly | >unrecommended, though, because it confuses the heck out of | >programs that recursively traverse directories (which is | >why only root is allowed to do it). | | i think there are versions of mac osx that use hard-linked | directories in their backup systems.
I believe TimeMachine exploits that. I think one can make loops with recursive mounts. -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do. - Fran Lebowitz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
