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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Hard links to directories: why not?
Keywords: ln, directories, security...
Message-ID: <+CV4JB7@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 23 Jul 90 21:10:56 GMT
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In article <9007221600.AA00202@mindcrf.mindcraft.com> karish@mindcrf.UUCP writes:
>     fsck can ignore symbolic links or treat them as ordinary files.
>     It can't ignore hard links.

Sure it can:
	if(stat("subdir/..", &sbuf) != EOF)
		if(stat(".", &dbuf) != EOF)
			if(sbuf.d_ino != dbuf.d_ino)
				type = LINK;
			else
				type = DIR;
		else
			PANIC("can't stat .");
	else
		type = UNKNOWN;
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