Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 02:29:26 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: davidg@Root.COM, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, lamuh@stoat.riga.lv Subject: Re: bin/1205: ln -F dir1 dir2 Message-ID: <199605171629.CAA29562@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>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? Data General and Linux allowing it :-). > 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. I'll object again. The changes in 1.1.5 were too incomplete to inspire confidence that all the issues had been considered. Unlinking of directories was still permitted, link.2 wasn't updated (it says that EPERM for directories doesn't apply for root), and ln's -F flag wasn't nuked. Bruce
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