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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 07:04:50 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL Lines: 21 Message-ID: <544p2e$ro4@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> <543o1d$pe0@newsbr.eunet.fr> <543m89$qo7@Mercury.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.196.155 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 tundra@MCS.COM (Tim Daneliuk) wrote: >>By the way, the symetrical link command allowed a (super)user to >>create links to anything, including cyclic graphs in the file system >>tree that fsck could not remove, and so on. Does it also exist on *BSD >my hackish solution to this problem is rm -i * answering 'y' only to >the bogus file 8-) ----------------------------------------- Thanks to the lack of stability of the SunOS 4.x file system, this was not possible : it would not remove a directory without its "." and ".." entries, so the cyclic graphcs remained. Long live fsdb ! It was the one solution at the time. Frederic G. MARAND Agorus SA / OSI SARL Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr