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From: Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dummy question
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 07:04:50 GMT
Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL
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tundra@MCS.COM (Tim Daneliuk) wrote:
>>By the way, the symetrical link command allowed a (super)user to
>>create links to anything, including cyclic graphs in the file system
>>tree that fsck could not remove, and so on. Does it also exist on *BSD

>my hackish solution to this problem is rm -i * answering 'y' only to
>the bogus file 8-)

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Thanks to the lack of stability of the SunOS 4.x file system, this was
not possible : it would not remove a directory without its "." and
".." entries, so the cyclic graphcs remained.

Long live fsdb ! It was the one solution at the time.


Frederic G. MARAND
Agorus SA / OSI SARL
Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr