Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 16:17:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <gwk@racer.dkrz.de> To: jkh@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: lamuh@stoat.riga.lv, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1205 Message-ID: <199605201417.QAA27393@racer.dkrz.de> In-Reply-To: <199605160227.TAA13954@freefall.freebsd.org> (jkh@freefall.freebsd.org)
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>>>>> ""Jordan" == "Jordan K Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org> writes:
"Jordan> Synopsis: hardlinked directories can be created but not
"Jordan> deleted State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
"Jordan> State-Changed-By: jkh State-Changed-When: Wed May 15
"Jordan> 19:26:03 PDT 1996 State-Changed-Why: Patient: "Doctor, it
"Jordan> hurts when I do _this_!"
"Jordan> Doctor says: "Don't do that!"
"Jordan> I'd say that this flag is undocumented for good
"Jordan> reason. :-)
Jordan,
I would rather opt for documenting the flag in the man page and warn
about it's use. We all know that root is supposed to know what he/she
is doing, so there is no need for a fix. On the other hand root is
not supposed to know everything, so there *is* a need for documenting
this feature.
Regards,
Georg-W. Koltermann, gwk@cray.com
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