Re: [MacPerl] Looping folders

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 14:58 -0800 on 2/6/98, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:

> ... they had aliased a folder (somehow) to point
> back at the top level directory.

Yow!  Unix doesn't allow anyone except root (superuser) to make hard
links to directories, and doesn't encourage it even then.  Mac OS
aliases are a bit more like Unix symbolic links than hard links in
implementation, but it appears that the semantics are still close
enough for this sort of usage to cause problems...

-r

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