Re: wait4/waitpid/waitid oddness

[Joshua Hudson]

On 4/6/06, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2006, at 22:09:48, Joshua Hudson wrote:
> > I'm the guy who removed the check in link() about source is a
> > directory, found out what broke, and am working on a patch to fix
> > all the resulting breakage.  Your task is apt to be a lot simpler.
>
> I seem to recall the reason why hardlinking directories was
> prohibited had something more to do with some unfixable races and
> deadlocks in the kernel; not to mention creating self-referential
> directory trees that are never freed and chew up disk space.

You recall correctly. I have fixed the self-referrential problem, and I
am testing a fix for the races and deadlocks. Desk proof is not good
enough for me.
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