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Date:      Fri, 24 May 1996 14:52:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Peter Wemm <peter>
To:        peter, freebsd-bugs, peter
Subject:   Re: bin/1205
Message-ID:  <199605242152.OAA02349@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Synopsis: hardlinked directories can be created but not deleted

Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->peter
Responsible-Changed-By: peter
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri May 24 14:51:10 PDT 1996
Responsible-Changed-Why: 
(Hmm, will this let me make a change after it's closed?)

The ability for root to link and unlink directories has just been removed,
so the ln -F option was deleted too.  This really was a bad mis-feature
that opens up all sorts of race conditions and other problems.  Not to mention
programs that expect ".." to point to the parent directory....



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