From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
To: Joshua Hudson <joshudson@gmail.com>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wait4/waitpid/waitid oddness
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 01:38:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <217AB2B7-BD72-49BE-AB02-AA952728073B@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bda6d13a0604061909u69dd8453me4c9b96cca8d34f5@mail.gmail.com>
On Apr 6, 2006, at 22:09:48, Joshua Hudson wrote:
> I'm the guy who removed the check in link() about source is a
> directory, found out what broke, and am working on a patch to fix
> all the resulting breakage. Your task is apt to be a lot simpler.
I seem to recall the reason why hardlinking directories was
prohibited had something more to do with some unfixable races and
deadlocks in the kernel; not to mention creating self-referential
directory trees that are never freed and chew up disk space.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-07 5:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-06 3:38 wait4/waitpid/waitid oddness Albert Cahalan
2006-04-07 2:09 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-07 5:38 ` Kyle Moffett [this message]
2006-04-07 6:40 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-07 6:50 ` Neil Brown
2006-04-07 7:09 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-07 18:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-07 18:58 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-07 19:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-07 19:24 ` Joshua Hudson
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