From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Jul 22 21:29:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871DD37B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5267043E4A for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:29:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 1C512AE160; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:29:18 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Bruce Evans Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rename hardlinks "works" on FreeBSD, but no-op on others Message-ID: <20020723042918.GI77219@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020722191522.GA77219@elvis.mu.org> <20020723133856.L28400-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020723133856.L28400-100000@gamplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Bruce Evans [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message