Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 01:43:18 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sym links Message-ID: <199503210943.BAA07270@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Mar 1995 01:23:28 PST." <199503210923.BAA00144@corbin.Root.COM>
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>>> >>>Could someone please tell the ignorant why in FreeBSD 2.X >>>when a directory is modified all the symbolic links in that directory >>>have their modification date changed to that same date? >>>I don't remember this happening in FreeBSD 1.X >>> >>>Steven >> >>symbolic links are stored entirely in the directory entry and thus >>carry the same time stamp info as the directory. > > Well, that's how POSIX would have it...but in FFS they are stored in the >inode if short and in a regular disk block if long. They're only made to >appear like they have no inode associated with them. I wouldn't object if we >went back to the old way of doing this - with symlinks having an inode. The >problem of a regular user not being able to delete a symlink he created in >/tmp is one of the many problems with the way we have it now. > >-DG What's the speed penalty for going back to 4.3 behavior? -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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