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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:58:23 -0500
- From: Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: PATCH: (0.98.6) allow root to link/unlink directories
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux: 16-Dec-92 Re: PATCH: (0.98.6) allow
- r.. Paul Hatchman@socs.uts.e (820)
-
- >It recreates the source directory structure under your home directory
- >by hard linking directories.
-
- >Still it is nothing that cant be done with a symlink.
-
- But if you delete where a symlink points to, you have a worthless,
- dangling symlink (*). A hard link would allow you to delete the source
- from its original location if no longer needed there, but leave the copy
- in your account untouched.
-
-
- * Does Linux still have the dangling symlink bug. Like, if you do ln -s
- some_file_name_that_does_not_exist foo, does a cat foo say "Too many
- levels of symbolic links", instead of "No such file or directory" or
- some other appropriate message? Just thought I'd mention it, in case the
- bug is still lurking out there.
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