What's more important are multiple readable entries for an object! And for those objects not to disapear unless the ref count on them is zero. The quintessent

What's more important are multiple readable entries for an object! And for those objects not to disapear unless the ref count on them is zero. The quintessential example is a library... By linking it into a directory the program has acccess to, you expose the library to the program. By using a hard link, you protect that library from being erased by another user