linux-kernel - Re: what is necessary for directory hard links

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Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:43:12 +1000
From:	Peter Chubb <peterc@...ato.unsw.edu.au>
To:	"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>
Cc:	7eggert@....de, Joshua Hudson <joshudson@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: what is necessary for directory hard links 

>>>>> "Horst" == Horst H von Brand <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl> writes:

Horst> Bodo Eggert <7eggert@...tempel.de> wrote:

>> This feature was implemented,

Horst> Never in my memory of any Unix (and lookalike) system in real
Horst> use (I've seen a few).

Back in edition 5 UNIX, there were /etc/link and
/etc/unlink that could operate on directories, if and only if you were
root.  I used to use them to deliberately muck up file systems for
system administration courses...

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