From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu May 16 10:39:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA19220 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA19215 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:39:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Root.COM (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id KAA02352; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199605161738.KAA02352@Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.Root.COM: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, lamuh@stoat.riga.lv Subject: Re: bin/1205: ln -F dir1 dir2 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 13:16:02 +0200." <199605161116.NAA02028@uriah.heep.sax.de> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:38:47 -0700 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >(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? Agreed. You may recall that I was the one to make the change in 1.1.5 (as well as took the heat for the change :-)). Please feel free to make the same change in -current. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project