Timeline for Why is '.' a hard link in Unix?
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| Oct 20, 2011 at 8:29 | answer | added | Norman Gray | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 18, 2011 at 21:07 | vote | accept | Joseph Garvin | ||
| Oct 18, 2011 at 21:07 | vote | accept | Joseph Garvin | ||
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| Oct 18, 2011 at 21:06 | vote | accept | Joseph Garvin | ||
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| Oct 16, 2011 at 19:42 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten |
Once you have the .. hardlinks your tree walking software already needs to have a "don't following cycles on the parent directory link" exceptions, so it is little added complexity to also except the . link.
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| Oct 15, 2011 at 22:17 | answer | added | ktf | timeline score: 40 | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 19:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUnix/status/125287141742878721 | ||
| Oct 15, 2011 at 17:09 | history | asked | Joseph Garvin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |