[OT] Hardlinks and directories

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:28 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > I'm not sure I understand what you're asking here. If something is
> > decided by the kernel, surely it's universal isn't it?
> 
> By universal I meant something determined by the filesystem. Would
> the 
> restriction still be there if I were to use ext4 with a kernel 
> (something other than linux) that supported such hardlinks?

No idea. In theory a non-Linux system could allow hard links to
directories if it wanted to (it's certainly not hard to do), but I don't
know if the ext4 specification has anything to say about it.

poc