From: Rutger Hofman <rutger@cs.vu.nl>
To: sandeep <shimple0@yahoo.com>
Cc: "ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org" <ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org>,
Ross Younger <wry@ecoscentric.com>
Subject: Re: Should hard links to directories work?
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 16:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A142A3A.9010006@cs.vu.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442798.53859.qm@web112517.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
sandeep wrote:
> 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?
FWIW, the Amoeba distributed OS had hard links to directories. It had no
soft links at all. It introduces loops in the directory 'hierarchy'
(because of the loops, there is no hierarchy any more), so e.g. find(1)
had to be armed with loop detection.
Rutger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-20 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-20 14:21 sandeep
2009-05-20 14:47 ` Ross Younger
2009-05-20 16:00 ` Rutger Hofman [this message]
2009-05-20 16:35 ` Nick Garnett
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-20 12:28 Ross Younger
2009-05-20 13:45 ` Bart Veer
2009-05-20 13:52 ` Gary Thomas
2009-05-20 14:42 ` Ross Younger
2009-05-20 16:56 ` Jonathan Larmour
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