From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 21 02:06:50 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA13904 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 02:06:50 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA13890 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 02:06:47 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id CAA28648; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 02:06:42 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id CAA01619; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 02:06:42 -0800 Message-Id: <199503211006.CAA01619@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: Steven Wallace , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sym links In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Mar 95 01:43:18 PST." <199503210943.BAA07270@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 02:06:42 -0800 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>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? None that I know of; the inode information is already available...unless you're refering to the human time to change the code back. :-) -DG