From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751138AbWGUU23 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:28:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751144AbWGUU23 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:28:29 -0400 Received: from dilbert.robsims.com ([209.120.158.98]:20497 "EHLO mail.robsims.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138AbWGUU22 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:28:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:28:25 -0600 From: Rob Sims To: Joshua Hudson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what is necessary for directory hard links Message-ID: <20060721202825.GB29656@robsims.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="l76fUT7nc3MelDdI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 06:04:49PM -0700, Joshua Hudson wrote: > This patch is the sum total of all that I had to change in the kernel > VFS layer to support hard links to directories and a few worse things > (hard links to things that are sometimes directories). Never mind > about do_path_lookup. I call that from an ioctl (flink). =20 What is the parent of a hard linked directory? What is the parent if the link in "the parent" is deleted? --=20 Rob A man is known by the company he organizes. -- Ambrose Bierce --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEwTjpnvKppSZW8osRAtjDAJ958L5Zcj4svLUGtKrXvpHbb0h45wCdHs/b MQ6icIjkPFfIHVmAmIpb9Mg= =Jlyo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI--