From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu May 16 04:21:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA20705 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 04:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA20694; Thu, 16 May 1996 04:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA20247; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:20:58 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA15894; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:20:57 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id NAA02028; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:16:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605161116.NAA02028@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/1205: ln -F dir1 dir2 To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 13:16:02 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: lamuh@stoat.riga.lv, davidg@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605160719.KAA19035@cantina.clinet.fi> from Heikki Suonsivu at "May 16, 96 10:19:59 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (I haven't seen the original PR for some reason) > > From: lamuh@stoat.riga.lv > >Number: 1205 > >Synopsis: hardlinked directories can be created but not deleted > > 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. clri(8) helps. >:-) David, i'm voting for killing the directory hardlink stuff again. Nobody could prove that it's really needed, all our 1.1.5.1 systems ran well, Data General and Linux forbid it as well -- what more do we need? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)