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[Issue 1000775] Hard links to directories


http://bugzilla.ecoscentric.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000775


Ross Younger <wry@ecoscentric.com> changed:

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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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