Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 08:23:30 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> Cc: lamuh@stoat.riga.lv, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1205: ln -F dir1 dir2 Message-ID: <199605161423.IAA22871@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199605160719.KAA19035@cantina.clinet.fi> References: <199605152321.CAA00516@stoat.riga.lv> <199605160719.KAA19035@cantina.clinet.fi>
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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. Actually, I just applied Terry's fix to fsck in -current so that fsck now requires only one pass to clean things up. I wanted to also bring it into -stable, but it needs to have more people beat on it so I decided to wait a while on it to make sure no unforseen bogons occur. Nate
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