From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 01:47:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA17973 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 01:47:19 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA17966 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 01:47:15 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id BAA08856; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 01:45:53 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id BAA00128; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 01:45:52 -0800 Message-Id: <199511270945.BAA00128@corbin.Root.COM> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), bob@luke.pmr.com Subject: Re: How can I remove hard links between directories? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Nov 95 09:22:05 +0100." <199511270822.JAA03924@uriah.heep.sax.de> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 01:45:51 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >As A boy and his worm gear wrote: >> >> > Help! An apparently buggy version of afio that I was running has >> > created some hard links between a couple of directories on my system > >David? Didn't we nuke the ability to hard-link directories some day >in 1.1.5.1? Should we nuke this again? I endured a significant amount of pain from all of the criticism of that change. While I think it's bogus to allow hard directory links in FFS, some other people disagree. ...but I think the other people are wrong, so yes, I think we should "nuke" them again. :-) -DG