On Sat, 2 Nov 2013, David Holland wrote:
> I think "not sensible" is not a good enough reason to prohibit > something. Yeah yeah, but still nowadays we don't allow adding hard links to directories. So while that's a valid premise, it's not universal.
FWIW, the idea not allowing hard links to directories is that ".." wouldn't be unique any more. I don't see such a thing with a symlink pointing to "".
- Hubert