Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:38:47 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, lamuh@stoat.riga.lv Subject: Re: bin/1205: ln -F dir1 dir2 Message-ID: <199605161738.KAA02352@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 13:16:02 %2B0200." <199605161116.NAA02028@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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>(I haven't seen the original PR for some reason) > >> >> From: lamuh@stoat.riga.lv >> >Number: 1205 >> >Synopsis: hardlinked directories can be created but not deleted >> >> theres an undocumented option to ln(1), it is ``-F''. >> it allows to hardlink directories. seems that there is no >> way to delete these directories. so, fsck(8) should be done >> three times to correct this problem. > >clri(8) helps. >:-) > >David, i'm voting for killing the directory hardlink stuff again. >Nobody could prove that it's really needed, all our 1.1.5.1 systems >ran well, Data General and Linux forbid it as well -- what more do we >need? Agreed. You may recall that I was the one to make the change in 1.1.5 (as well as took the heat for the change :-)). Please feel free to make the same change in -current. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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