From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
To: "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, Joshua Hudson <joshudson@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: what is necessary for directory hard links
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:43:12 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874px56yjz.peterc%peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607230219.k6N2JMHI021999@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
>>>>> "Horst" == Horst H von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:
Horst> Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de> wrote:
>> This feature was implemented,
Horst> Never in my memory of any Unix (and lookalike) system in real
Horst> use (I've seen a few).
Back in edition 5 UNIX, there were /etc/link and
/etc/unlink that could operate on directories, if and only if you were
root. I used to use them to deliberately muck up file systems for
system administration courses...
--
Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-25 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <6ARGK-19L-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6B8og-1iB-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-07-22 16:59 ` what is necessary for directory hard links Bodo Eggert
2006-07-22 18:13 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-24 6:45 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-07-24 7:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-24 16:21 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-24 17:55 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-24 18:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-25 4:49 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-25 12:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-25 14:47 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-23 2:19 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-23 22:27 ` Vernon Mauery
2006-07-25 23:43 ` Peter Chubb [this message]
[not found] <6CcT1-1lH-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <6Cwov-5xl-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-07-25 21:28 ` Bodo Eggert
2006-07-26 1:00 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-26 9:13 ` Bodo Eggert
2006-07-21 1:04 Joshua Hudson
2006-07-21 18:49 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-21 20:28 ` Rob Sims
2006-07-21 21:57 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-24 6:42 ` Nikita Danilov
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