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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: 19 Oct 1996 00:02:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5495rd$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> <543o1d$pe0@newsbr.eunet.fr> <546jmr$1ks@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) wrote: > This sounds like the "ln -f" option on Sequent Dynix boxes. It allows > you to hard-link directory entries ;) FreeBSD did have it until very recently, too. It was undocumented and called -F there. It's still available in 2.1.5R, but no longer in 2.2-current (after a fairly long debate). By the same time, the syscall-level support for hardlinking and unlinking directories has also been killed. (Btw., the counterpart unlink(8) was missing all the time before. You gotta write it yourself if you have accidentally used ln -F. It's a six-liner only, however.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)