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From: beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Should superusers be able to link?
Message-ID: <319@visenix.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 14:37:33 GMT
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Reply-To: beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie)
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I think it is a good idea to allow root to link
directories.  One reason is to allow root to repair
broken directories.  If a directory is missing "."
or ".." this can be repaired only with link(2).

Not the strongest of arguments I know.
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