Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 01:23:28 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sym links Message-ID: <199503210923.BAA00144@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Mar 95 00:48:57 PST." <199503210849.AAA04183@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu>
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>> >>Could someone please tell the ignorant why in FreeBSD 2.X >>when a directory is modified all the symbolic links in that directory >>have their modification date changed to that same date? >>I don't remember this happening in FreeBSD 1.X >> >>Steven > >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
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