Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:29:25 -0500 (EST) | From | Kenneth Albanowski <> | Subject | Re: unlink system call on directories - Bug + fix |
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On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
> The same filesystem, exported from SunOS 4.1.1, mounted on SunOS 4.1.4 > does not allow directories to be unlinked. So I conclude that the > server is not wrong. The Linux kernel should know that the file is a > directory and not even try to unlink it since it knows it is not > allowed.
The server is still wrong. There is no reason user-level code couldn't be written that performs the same "unlink-directory" operation. Yes, it may be in our best interests to stop the client from doing this, but that doesn't mean the server isn't broken.
-- Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)
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