Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 22:46:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: gwk@cray.com Cc: jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, lamuh@stoat.riga.lv, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1205 Message-ID: <199605202046.WAA06365@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605201417.QAA27393@racer.dkrz.de> from "Georg-W. Koltermann" at "May 20, 96 04:17:00 pm"
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As Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: > "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've reached silent agreement to do it the other way 'round: Nuke -F completely, and make the kernel reject link() and unlink() of directories. We've already got this (well, link() only) in 1.1.5.1, and there are other systems known that forbid hard-linking directories as well. Your PR was a clear indication that the only purpose of them them is shooting into the foot. Btw., there's a very secure way to get rid of the hard links: unmount your file system, and run fsck. :-] -- 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. ;-)
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