-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 2:39 am, Crossfire wrote:
> Hopefully they took the idiot who added it in the first place out the back > and shot him. It would save the rest of us a lot of pain caused by all the > idiots who used it without realising the consequences. :-) > It should never be implemented. Ever. Its fundamentally wrong. Unfortunately it has been around for a long time. From the SunOS manual page for "ln": - -f Force a hard link to a directory -- this option is only available to the super-user. Personally I'm of the opinion that if the kernel/FS implements it, and if the command to do it requires an option to force it, plus it's restricted to root, then they deserve all they get for using it. NB: The Austin Groups Single UNIX Specification (the unification of POSIX, the Open Group, ISO/IEC JTC-1, etc) does *not* prohibit a symbolic link to a directory, merely requires it to fail "unless the process has appropriate privileges and the implementation supports using link() on directories". Basically they wash their hands and leave it up to the vendors. :-) cheers, Chris - -- Chris Samuel : http://csamuel.org/ : Wollongong, NSW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPl16c41yjaOTJg85AQE3JQf8CCg69K/bSAbgnWOPxClsKAfSXk+53+CH uvG1nmYcuBmfqeCgVv+Y7u+kK0yUM0dtgDUwvnjwYBFylDBsyX4SR6yziDcPel7G ULtlscyWFq7yUQQ5XEL8rQHp8+KTXk0rnrRjzX6+KVjSEqmkuOobgdkh0B+B497A rMpih0grE9fkTKUU7v+lDiJiCO89Y/I1Gf49XOkro+5qDsy/udujj7wVJzN8QkXW fqL7/ub4z1ZmwJvaSIRzMAGr8WXo8MLUN0JGLR/M3YAxK6H/apl6tOjNISwWiquO +RZ/TiNgBVdv7PgCOfBrVKSqgZYqsyQjWTwNKOqWd9a8awjGMI59bw== =Jlo3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
