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

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Message-ID: <20060721202825.GB29656@robsims.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:28:25 -0600
From:	Rob Sims <lkml-z@...sims.com>
To:	Joshua Hudson <joshudson@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what is necessary for directory hard links

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 06:04:49PM -0700, Joshua Hudson wrote:
> This patch is the sum total of all that I had to change in the kernel
> VFS layer to support hard links to directories and a few worse things
> (hard links to things that are sometimes directories). Never mind
> about do_path_lookup. I call that from an ioctl (flink).
 
What is the parent of a hard linked directory?  What is the parent if
the link in "the parent" is deleted?
-- 
Rob
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