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Date:      Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:29:18 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rename hardlinks "works" on FreeBSD, but no-op on others
Message-ID:  <20020723042918.GI77219@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020723133856.L28400-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <20020722191522.GA77219@elvis.mu.org> <20020723133856.L28400-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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* Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [020722 21:04] wrote:
> >
> > It seems that we do the right thing, however:
> >
> > 1) are we standards compliant?
> 
> No.
> 
> > 2) just for curiousity, why would others silently fail?
> 
> Because they are standards compliant (even though the standard may be wrong
> here).
> 
> I fixed this in Linux back in 1992 or 1993, and in my version of FreeBSD
> a few months later, but never got around to committing the fix.

Can you commit it now?

-Alfred

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