How do you create a hardlink (as opposed to a symlink or a Mac OS alias) in OS X that points to a directory? I already know the command "ln target destination" but that only works when the target is a file. I know that Mac OS, unlike other Unix environments, does allow hardlinking to folders (this is used for Time Machine, for example) but I don't know how to do it myself.
You can't do it directly in BASH then. However... I found an article here that discusses how to do it indirectly: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.23/23.11/ExploringLeopardwithDTrace/index.html by compiling a simple little C program:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
if (argc != 3) return 1;
int ret = link(argv[1], argv[2]);
if (ret != 0) perror("link");
return ret;
}
...and build in Terminal.app with:
$ gcc -o hlink hlink.c -Wall