From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25278 invoked by alias); 20 May 2009 14:21:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 25262 invoked by uid 22791); 20 May 2009 14:21:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from web112517.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (HELO web112517.mail.gq1.yahoo.com) (98.137.26.186) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Wed, 20 May 2009 14:21:26 +0000 Received: (qmail 54871 invoked by uid 60001); 20 May 2009 14:21:24 -0000 Message-ID: <442798.53859.qm@web112517.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Received: from [115.69.149.137] by web112517.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 20 May 2009 07:21:24 PDT Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:21:00 -0000 From: sandeep Subject: Re: Should hard links to directories work? To: "ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org" , Ross Younger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-devel-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-devel-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-05/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 Hi Ross, Younger ;) people often have interesting questions and are responsible for fresh insights. > The Unix world traditionally shuns such things as an abomination. > The eCos docs are quiet on the subject, as is the code in > ramfs and jffs2. > Should they work? Does anybody use them? Before we discuss it further, where/how do you think you will use directory hardlinking, if it were available for normal user? Sandeep