Bug in "ln -d"

[Ed Marden]

Hi,

There seems to be a problem with making a hard link to a directory, the man 
page says that it should be possible, but it's not.

When I try with "ln -d /old /new" I get:-
"ln: creating hard link `/new' to `/old': Operation not permitted"
This is as root, and regardless of where in the filesytem the target and 
link are.

I've tried on 4.0 on a redhat machine and 4.1 on debian sid - with identical 
results.

Regards
Edward Marden



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