Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 02:21:56 +0300 (EET DST) From: lamuh@stoat.riga.lv To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/1205: ln -F dir1 dir2 Message-ID: <199605152321.CAA00516@stoat.riga.lv> Resent-Message-ID: <199605152320.QAA02092@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1205 >Category: bin >Synopsis: hardlinked directories can be created but not deleted >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed May 15 16:20:02 PDT 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: bofh >Organization: >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386 >Environment: >Description: theres an undocumented option to ln(1), it is ``-F''. it allows to hardlink directories. seems that there is no way to delete these directories. so, fsck(8) should be done three times to correct this problem. >How-To-Repeat: # cd /tmp # mkdir dir1 # ln -F dir1 dir2 # rmdir dir1 rmdir: dir1: Directory not empty # >Fix: i have no ideas how to fix it. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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