Need help: deleting a *hardlinked* directory...

George Robbins grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Sun Sep 2 12:09:14 AEST 1990


In article <1990Sep1.131832.510 at glance.ch> david at elava.UUCP (David Mosberger) writes:
> Well, i know that it is impossible to hardlink directories. However,
> here is a way  that you can do the impossible: try to rename a directory on
> an NFS-mounted filesystem and you will receive the error message:

normally you'd use  unlink(8) where the filesystem is locally mounted, but
ultrix seems to be missing this fine utility.  You could try writing an idiot
program to invoke the unlink(2) system call on the file or give clri(8) a try,
followed by an fsck to clean up the mess...

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