Dangling inode problem

[Sam Fulcomer]

In article <1990Dec5.032329.5531 at odin.corp.sgi.com> bh at sgi.com (Bent Hagemark) writes:
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>Yes, fsck properly clears the reference, and yes nothing else can.

Well, let's be fair now... It wouldn't be hard to edit the directory (by 
some means other than fsck) directly through the disk driver. It's just that,
since most OS implementations somewhat prudishly disallow write() to dir,
no other approach can work. (except perhaps a good, swift kick) 


_/**/Sam