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On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:36:39AM +0200, Tels wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Moin, > > On 27-Jul-01 Nicholas Clark tried to scribble about: > > But it's probably easier to patch the adfs filesystem on Linux to give a > > link count of 1 for directories. [there is no real . or .. entry - it's > > faking it. And even if Russell King doesn't want such a change, I'm > > compiling my kernels, not him :-)] > > Bugger! ;) Just ask him kindly, I don't think "usefull" (instead of > "right/wrong) nlink counts hurt, but they help some people. Like us ;) He said he'd look at the specs, then realised that he didn't have the right POSIX or Single Unix Specifications around. > > And adfs is hardly "really big" > > What does adfs stand for? Advanced Disc Filing System [it superceded Acorn's older "Disc Filing System"] but I think that it may be in the linux tree as Acorn Disk Filing System. > > Until someone can show me a spec that says that the link count on POSIX > > systems should behave in this way, I'd urge avoiding describing this as > > "wrong". > > You know what I mean. Yes, I do. But it's wrong to call it "wrong" without a spec that says it's wrong. Nicholas Clark -- EAGAIN: http://plum.flirble.org/~nick/CV.htmlThread Previous | Thread Next