Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2003 18:16:57 +0200 | From | Herbert Pötzl <> | Subject | Re: FS: hardlinks on directories |
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:56:09PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 08:42:09 -0700 (PDT) > Brian Pawlowski <beepy@netapp.com> wrote: > > > I'm still waking up, but '..' obviously breaks the "no cycle" > > observations. > > Hear, hear ... > > > It's just that '..' is well known name by utilities as opposed > > to arbitrary links. > > Well, that leads only to the point that ".." implementation is just lousy and > it should have been done right in the first place. If there is a need for a > loop or a hardlink (like "..") all you have to have is a standard way to find > out, be it flags or the like, whatever. But taking the filename or anything not > applicable to other cases as matching factor was obviously short-sighted.
hey, why not just implement it, as a proof of concept and see, what is broken, and what can be fixed ...
maybe your concept has a big fute, ... give it a try!
on the other hand, if you want somebody to implement this stuff for you, you'll have to provide convincing arguments for it, I for example, would be glad if hardlinks where removed from unix altogether ...
best, Herbert
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