Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 13:16:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Cc: lamuh@stoat.riga.lv, davidg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1205: ln -F dir1 dir2 Message-ID: <199605161116.NAA02028@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605160719.KAA19035@cantina.clinet.fi> from Heikki Suonsivu at "May 16, 96 10:19:59 am"
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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? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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