hard links for directories ?

[David Kelly]

On Aug 17, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>> Root is the only one allowed to make hard links to directories.
>
> This is not correct.  root has no special powers here.

OK, I'm a bit out of date and stand corrected. IIRC fsck used link(2) 
to reconnect an inode as a directory sometimes. "man 2 link" says:

>  The link() system call traditionally allows the super-user to link 
> direc-
>  tories which corrupts the file system coherency.  This implementation 
> no
>  longer permits it.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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