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	:: Yes, I have no doubt a proper library would have thought about it. But some of the code samples didn't use a library and just used recursion, which can have funny results. I guess it's ok for examples here, though. And I don't know why I said "harlink" above, bah. --[[User:Ledrug\|Ledrug]] 06:57, 13 June 2011 (UTC)		:: Yes, I have no doubt a proper library would have thought about it. But some of the code samples didn't use a library and just used recursion, which can have funny results. I guess it's ok for examples here, though. And I don't know why I said "harlink" above, bah. --[[User:Ledrug\|Ledrug]] 06:57, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

			::: In every OS that I am aware of, a symlink needs special treatment to be read (if they are supported at all), and a hardlink to a directory is an error. --[[User:Rdm\|Rdm]] 12:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)