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Re: broken 'ln' behavior
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: broken 'ln' behavior
- From: Pierre Abbat <phma at oltronics dot net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:56:01 -0400
- References: <38FC3A26.228D9C57@sophia.8x8.com>
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Jeremey Fischer wrote:
>Put simply, I cant make a hard link between directories.
Are you doing this on vfat or ntfs? Vfat doesn't allow hard links (it's
physically possible but considered an error). But the error I got on Linux was:
[root@neofelis floppy]# mkdir aoeu
[root@neofelis floppy]# ln aoeu snth
ln: aoeu: hard link not allowed for directory
[root@neofelis floppy]#
phma
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