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Date:      Thu, 16 May 1996 08:23:30 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
Cc:        lamuh@stoat.riga.lv, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1205: ln -F dir1 dir2
Message-ID:  <199605161423.IAA22871@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199605160719.KAA19035@cantina.clinet.fi>
References:  <199605152321.CAA00516@stoat.riga.lv> <199605160719.KAA19035@cantina.clinet.fi>

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> 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.

Actually, I just applied Terry's fix to fsck in -current so that fsck
now requires only one pass to clean things up.  I wanted to also bring
it into -stable, but it needs to have more people beat on it so I
decided to wait a while on it to make sure no unforseen bogons occur.


Nate



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