In article <v15gcp$18g38$[email protected]>, <[email protected]> wrote: ...

Probably because there isn't much point (not that IMO there's much point to >hard links anyway) ...

Without hard links, you could not have a Unix filesystem.

So, you do need them.

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On Sat, 4 May 2024 14:40:54 -0000 (UTC)
[email protected] (Kenny McCormack) wrote:

In article <v15gcp$18g38$[email protected]>, <[email protected]> wrote: >....

Probably because there isn't much point (not that IMO there's much point to >>hard links anyway) ...

Without hard links, you could not have a Unix filesystem.

Why not? If you meant "." and ".." FAT copes without having these as actual filesystem entries - they simply get interpreted by the path string parsing system. I'm not even sure if NTFS has them as hard links either.

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