From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 21 01:43:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA13163 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 01:43:33 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA13157 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 01:43:28 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA07270; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 01:43:20 -0800 Message-Id: <199503210943.BAA07270@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: davidg@Root.COM cc: Steven Wallace , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sym links In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Mar 1995 01:23:28 PST." <199503210923.BAA00144@corbin.Root.COM> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 01:43:18 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> >>>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 ==============================================