Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:03:14 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: flags on symlinks Message-ID: <200107222003.QAA21807@wellington.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:47:07 PDT." <3B5B2DBB.16B607E2@mindspring.com>
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> Flags are associated with inodes, and symlinks do not have > inodes in the common case, as they exist solely in the > directory entry, unless they are too long. $ mkdir foo; cd foo; date > x; ln -s x y; ls -lai total 3 261248 drwxr-xr-x 2 bakul bakul 512 Jul 22 12:58 . 261211 drwxr-xr-x 3 bakul bakul 512 Jul 22 12:58 .. 261283 -rw-r--r-- 1 bakul bakul 29 Jul 22 12:58 x 261296 lrwxr-xr-x 1 bakul bakul 1 Jul 22 12:58 y -> x $ cd ..; rm -rf foo > Pretty clearly, there should _NOT_ be a seperate system call; There needs to be. -- bakul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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