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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 1996 06:43:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/fsdb fsdb.c
Message-ID:  <199609290443.GAA05739@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199609282025.NAA03244@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Sep 28, 96 01:25:30 pm"

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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. ;-)



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