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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: bin/1205
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Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 22:46:32 +0200 (MET DST)
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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. ;-)