From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat May 18 04:55:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA26244 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 04:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA26228 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 04:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA24118; Sat, 18 May 1996 13:52:02 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA13368; Sat, 18 May 1996 13:51:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA09655; Sat, 18 May 1996 09:35:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605180735.JAA09655@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/1205: ln -F dir1 dir2 To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 09:35:38 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, lamuh@stoat.riga.lv Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605171629.CAA29562@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "May 18, 96 02:29:26 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)