On 12/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>However, it gets interesting when SVID3 comes into play:
>
><snip>
>   The link(BA_OS) and unlink(BA_OS) descriptions in SVID3 both specify that
>   a process with appropriate privileges is allowed to operate on a
>directory.
>   We have claimed to conform to SVID3 since Solaris 2.0 and have not
>announced
>   that we ever plan to EOL SVID3 conformance.
><snip end>

This seems to allow an escape route; we can declare that no process
has sufficient privileges to link()/unlink() directories :-)

Ahhh... the good old standard excuse of Sun Microsystems to do nothing :) :) :)

Holger
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