Hans Georg Schaathun <h...@schaathun.net> writes: > On Unix, the directory is just a file, listing other files by name > and disk location. Then it is perfectly natural (although very > rarely smart) to delete a directory without any concequences to the > contents.
Ironically, the only unix I know of where this makes a lot of sense is Mac OS X (where multiple hard links to a single directory is utilised by TimeMachine to minimise the size of incremental backup trees) :-) -- (espen) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
