In article <mailman.879.1598986729.9580.python-l...@python.org>,
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2020-09-01, Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote:
>
>> Remember, we are talking about a hypothetical OS that handles hardlinks
>> to directories, and defines that .. will point to the parent used to
>> come to it, NOT just having current *NIX allowing hardlinks to
>> directories with no remediation of the issues cause.
>
>I can testify from personal experience that SunOS 3/4 was in the
>latter category. After creating a hard-link to a directory, things
>like fsck and the filesystem dump backup utility got very upset and
>confused. IIRC the only way to recover was to nuke the involved
>inodes then let fsck try to pick up the pieces and put them in the
>lost+found. IIRC, I managed to recover without losing any files, but
>it wasn't a fun day.
It was a defect ("bug") in the SUNOS that this was possible.
So reread this thread.
"Let us imagine the situation that a severe, known defect was
reintroduced in linux, just for the fun of it."
>
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>Grant
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