From: Louis J Scoras <louis.j.scoras@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T11:20:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] creating hard links for Directories.

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> On Sep 29, 2005, at 9:21 PM, kraf001 wrote:
>
> > well as we all know the File class in ruby has the method link which
> > creates a hard link between files. I want to create hard links between
> > directories. so a link to directory would have the same content and
> > any
> > change to its content will effect the other linked directories... I
> > tries
> > using FileUtils class but it didn't work!.. any ideas?
> >
>
>
As pointed out, this is probably OS dependant, but under unix like operatin=
g
systems, you can't make a hard link to a directory. This is to prevent the
directory structure from becoming cyclic.

Are you sure that a symbolic (soft) link won't do for what you're trying to
acomplish? If you make changes to directories under a link, it will make
changes under the "real" directory.


--
Lou

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