Problem with patch and infinit directories

[Brandon Allbery the tame hacker on the North Coast]

> Article <2547 at umcp-cs.UUCP>, from chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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| > The restriction about linking directories is built into
| > the link program.
| 
| Not in 4.2BSD it's not!  I think it was in the 4.1 kernel as well.
| (I haven't seen any other kernel sources, so I wouldn't know about
| V6/V7/Sn.)

V7 allows it; it's how /bin/mkdir works.  In fact, I just had to write
a custom mkdir because /bin/mkdir was using the wrong uid to compute
access permissions.  I can see why 4.2's mkdir system call would be useful.

Also:  Plexus P/35 (System III) has /etc/link which links directories
and is billed to be /bin/ln without error checking (for root only).

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