Subject: Re: hardlink to symlink
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/09/1999 10:34:59
Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de> writes:
> I've used hardlinks to symlinks under Solaris, and understanding
> hardlinks as "just another directory entry" for whatever object
> (referenced by i/vnode), was wondering why NetBSD didn't support
> this.

Note that under 4.4, there were no inodes associated with a symlink,
thus making this impossible in certain flavors of BSD....

Perry