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From: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <gwk@racer.dkrz.de>
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Subject: Re: bin/1205
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>>>>> ""Jordan" == "Jordan K Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org> writes:

    "Jordan> Synopsis: hardlinked directories can be created but not
    "Jordan> deleted State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
    "Jordan> State-Changed-By: jkh State-Changed-When: Wed May 15
    "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 all know that root is supposed to know what he/she
is doing, so there is no need for a fix.  On the other hand root is
not supposed to know everything, so there *is* a need for documenting
this feature.

Regards,

Georg-W. Koltermann, gwk@cray.com