Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 14:52:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Wemm <peter> To: peter, freebsd-bugs, peter Subject: Re: bin/1205 Message-ID: <199605242152.OAA02349@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: hardlinked directories can be created but not deleted Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->peter Responsible-Changed-By: peter Responsible-Changed-When: Fri May 24 14:51:10 PDT 1996 Responsible-Changed-Why: (Hmm, will this let me make a change after it's closed?) The ability for root to link and unlink directories has just been removed, so the ln -F option was deleted too. This really was a bad mis-feature that opens up all sorts of race conditions and other problems. Not to mention programs that expect ".." to point to the parent directory....
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