From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271885AbTHDQQv (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:16:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271889AbTHDQQv (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:16:51 -0400 Received: from www.13thfloor.at ([212.16.59.250]:15241 "EHLO www.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271885AbTHDQQt (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:16:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 18:16:57 +0200 From: Herbert =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=F6tzl?= To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: Brian Pawlowski , aebr@win.tue.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FS: hardlinks on directories Message-ID: <20030804161657.GA6292@www.13thfloor.at> Reply-To: herbert@13thfloor.at Mail-Followup-To: Stephan von Krawczynski , Brian Pawlowski , aebr@win.tue.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030804134415.GA4454@win.tue.nl> <200308041542.h74Fg9k26251@orbit-fe.eng.netapp.com> <20030804175609.7301d075.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030804175609.7301d075.skraw@ithnet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:56:09PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 08:42:09 -0700 (PDT) > Brian Pawlowski wrote: > > > I'm still waking up, but '..' obviously breaks the "no cycle" > > observations. > > Hear, hear ... > > > It's just that '..' is well known name by utilities as opposed > > to arbitrary links. > > Well, that leads only to the point that ".." implementation is just lousy and > it should have been done right in the first place. If there is a need for a > loop or a hardlink (like "..") all you have to have is a standard way to find > out, be it flags or the like, whatever. But taking the filename or anything not > applicable to other cases as matching factor was obviously short-sighted. hey, why not just implement it, as a proof of concept and see, what is broken, and what can be fixed ... maybe your concept has a big fute, ... give it a try! on the other hand, if you want somebody to implement this stuff for you, you'll have to provide convincing arguments for it, I for example, would be glad if hardlinks where removed from unix altogether ... best, Herbert > Regards, > Stephan > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/