On Aug 17, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Root is the only one allowed to make hard links to directories.
This is not correct. root has no special powers here.
OK, I'm a bit out of date and stand corrected. IIRC fsck used link(2) to reconnect an inode as a directory sometimes. "man 2 link" says:
The link() system call traditionally allows the super-user to link direc-
tories which corrupts the file system coherency. This implementation no
longer permits it.
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