Strange directory link, please help to remove it, thanks.

Question

Hi All,
Today, I find two directory with the same inode number.
It is very strange, as I know that solaris 9 can't make hard link to a directory.
Could you please help to remove one of these two directory?
Thanks in advance!
# ls -lid qa_ftp
48248350 drwxrwxrw-+ 35 root qa4adm 1024 Jul 18 22:27 qa_ftp
# ls -lid ../QA
48248350 drwxrwxrw-+ 35 root qa4adm 1024 Jul 18 22:27 ../QA
# cat /etc/release
Solaris 9 4/03 s9s_u3wos_08 SPARC
Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 25 February 2003
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Answer 1

There's another possibility, the "-L" option to ls(1) causes ls to follow symbolic links. I suspect someone has aliased ls to "ls -L" and that would give the results you see. try giving a full path to ls, ie "/bin/ls -lid qa_ftp ../QA" and see if that gives the same result.
HTH,
Roger S.