From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271814AbTHDP4O (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:56:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271832AbTHDP4O (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:56:14 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:44481 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271814AbTHDP4L (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:56:11 -0400 X-Sender-Authentification: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 17:56:09 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Brian Pawlowski Cc: aebr@win.tue.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FS: hardlinks on directories Message-Id: <20030804175609.7301d075.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200308041542.h74Fg9k26251@orbit-fe.eng.netapp.com> References: <20030804134415.GA4454@win.tue.nl> <200308041542.h74Fg9k26251@orbit-fe.eng.netapp.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Regards, Stephan