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Date:      Sat, 18 May 1996 09:35:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        davidg@Root.COM, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, lamuh@stoat.riga.lv
Subject:   Re: bin/1205: ln -F dir1 dir2
Message-ID:  <199605180735.JAA09655@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605171629.CAA29562@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "May 18, 96 02:29:26 am"

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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> 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.

All this is easy to fix.

-- 
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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