Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:47:57 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Cc: FreeBSD_Questions FreeBSD_Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: hard links for directories ? Message-ID: <20040819021757.GL81574@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <22C619E6-F185-11D8-B845-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> References: <6.1.2.0.0.20040816220030.04148ec0@mail1.simplenet.com> <20040817052403.GE88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> <6BDB5047-F05D-11D8-8B80-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> <20040817231447.GM88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> <22C619E6-F185-11D8-B845-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net>
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--0qVF/w3MHQqLSynd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 18 August 2004 at 21:11:52 -0500, David Kelly wrote: > On Aug 17, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> Root is the only one allowed to make hard links to directories. >> >> This is not correct. root has no special powers here. > > OK, I'm a bit out of date and stand corrected. IIRC fsck used link(2) > to reconnect an inode as a directory sometimes. "man 2 link" says: > >> The link() system call traditionally allows the super-user to link >> directories which corrupts the file system coherency. This >> implementation no longer permits it. Ah, interesting. I didn't know that. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --0qVF/w3MHQqLSynd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBJA3VIubykFB6QiMRAnQTAKCELwOdzL0k9kaTXjiIXTaiIceM8QCglgN5 NeBG3eEU/e5hiAl8pZDpM4I= =qnXE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0qVF/w3MHQqLSynd--
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