Eric Schrock <[email protected]> wrote: > The decision to not support link(2) of directories was very deliberate - it > is an abomination that never should have been allowed in the first place. > My guess is that the behavior of unlink(2) on directories is a direct > side-effect of that (if link isn't supported, then why support unlink?). > Also worth noting that ZFS also doesn't let you open(2) directories and > read(2) from them, something (I believe) UFS does allow.
Link/unlink on directories is not a property of UFS. UFS has been designed without that feature, but it has been added by AT&T with SVr4. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
