From: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:50:28 GMT
Subject: Re: "git clone" executed as root on solaris 10 shreds UFS (it ispossible to create hardlinks for directories as root under solaris)
Message-ID: <20070716155028.GE19073@lavos.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070716154559.GD19073@lavos.net>

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:45:59AM -0500, Brian Downing wrote:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/unlink.html
> 
> | The path argument must not name a directory unless the process has
> | appropriate privileges and the implementation supports using unlink() on
> | directories.
> 
> The above seems to imply that implementations are free to do something
> with directories passed to unlink, and that it is the responsibility
> if the user not to do that unless they know what is going to happen.

Also, the HISTORY section of the FreeBSD manpages states:

| The unlink system call traditionally allows the super-user to unlink
| directories which can damage the filesystem integrity. This
| implementation no longer permits it.

Great.

-bcd