Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:19:59 +0300 (EET DST) From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: lamuh@stoat.riga.lv Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1205: ln -F dir1 dir2 Message-ID: <199605160719.KAA19035@cantina.clinet.fi> In-Reply-To: lamuh@stoat.riga.lv's message of 16 May 1996 05:23:00 %2B0300 References: <199605152321.CAA00516@stoat.riga.lv>
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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.
>How-To-Repeat:
# cd /tmp
# mkdir dir1
# ln -F dir1 dir2
# rmdir dir1
rmdir: dir1: Directory not empty
#
>Fix:
i have no ideas how to fix it.
This might work if run as root:
cat > foo.c
main()
{
exit(unlink("dir1"));
}
^D
gcc foo.c -o foo
./foo
rm foo
At some point in history, and still reflected by unlink(2), unlink system
call allows removing a directory. The result will be a mess, so make sure
to fsck after doing it.
Another way to get rid of the doubly linked directory is to use clri to
clear the directory inode and let fsck to fix the results.
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