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[Issue 1000775] Hard links to directories
- From: bugzilla-daemon at ecoscentric dot com
- To: ecos-bugs at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:34:04 +0100
- Subject: [Issue 1000775] Hard links to directories
- References: <bug-1000775-13@http.bugzilla.ecoscentric.com/>
http://bugzilla.ecoscentric.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000775
Ross Younger <wry@ecoscentric.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |NOTABUG
--- Comment #3 from Ross Younger <wry@ecoscentric.com> 2009-05-28 15:34:02 ---
There was some discussion on ecos-devel.
Nick wrote:
> In eCos, support for hard directory links should generally be a
> filesystem property. If a particular filesystem can deal with the
> consequences the they should be passed through the other layers
> without comment. For YAFFS, I suspect that they should not be
> permitted.
I'm therefore not going to change any other filesystem, nor fileio itself.
YAFFS would require a bit of brain surgery to handle them correctly, so I've
opted to disallow them until such time (if ever) as there's a need.
Nobody need to anything, so I'm closing this ticket.
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