**Why the directories inside /proc/sys/net/ipv4/config have no hard links?**

```
ls -l /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Dec 31 08:27 all
dr-xr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Dec 31 08:27 default
dr-xr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Dec 31 08:27 eth0
dr-xr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Dec 31 08:27 lo

```