From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 28 21:51:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA26828 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 21:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26769 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 21:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id GAA20990 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 06:51:28 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA22724 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 06:51:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id GAA05739 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 06:43:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199609290443.GAA05739@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/fsdb fsdb.c To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 06:43:25 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199609282025.NAA03244@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Sep 28, 96 01:25:30 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > Personally, I think directory hard links should not be allowed. They are not (no longer) allowed in FreeBSD. That's why we don't need unlink(8) either. revision 1.48 date: 1996/05/24 16:19:23; author: peter; state: Exp; lines: +9 -7 Dont allow directories to be link()ed or unlink()ed, even for root (returns EPERM always, the errno is specified by POSIX). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)