+/* #Specification: weakness / hard link
+ * The strategy for hard link introduces a side effect that
+ * may or may not be acceptable. Here is the sequence
+ *
+ * #
+ * mkdir subdir1
+ * touch subdir1/file
+ * mkdir subdir2
+ * ln subdir1/file subdir2/file
+ * rm subdir1/file
+ * rmdir subdir1
+ * rmdir: subdir1: Directory not empty
+ * #
+ *
+ * This happen because there is an invisible file (--link) in
+ * subdir1 which is referenced by subdir2/file.
+ *
+ * Any idea ?
Coda and AFS just don't allow hard links across directories.
Cross-directory hard links break anyway across a mount point,
so they aren't commonly needed. The existing bug is a greater
problem than the loss of cross-directory hard links.
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