From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030257AbWGYXnm (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:43:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030258AbWGYXnm (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:43:42 -0400 Received: from mx.chubb.wattle.id.au ([66.29.2.6]:27146 "EHLO mx.chubb.wattle.id.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030257AbWGYXnl (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:43:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:43:12 +1000 Message-ID: <874px56yjz.peterc%peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> From: Peter Chubb To: "Horst H. von Brand" Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, Joshua Hudson , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200607230219.k6N2JMHI021999@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> References: <7eggert@elstempel.de> <200607230219.k6N2JMHI021999@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 19) (Constant Variable) (amd64-debian-linux) X-Face: GgFg(Z>fx((4\32hvXq<)|jndSniCH~~$D)Ka:P@e@JR1P%Vr}EwUdfwf-4j\rUs#JR{'h# !]])6%Jh~b$VA|ALhnpPiHu[-x~@<"@Iv&|%R)Fq[[,(&Z'O)Q)xCqe1\M[F8#9l8~}#u$S$Rm`S9% \'T@`:&8>Sb*c5d'=eDYI&GF`+t[LfDH="MP5rwOO]w>ALi7'=QJHz&y&C&TE_3j! MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.143.174.122 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, 7eggert@gmx.de, joshudson@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: what is necessary for directory hard links Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:42:28 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mx.chubb.wattle.id.au) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Horst" == Horst H von Brand 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