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SubjectRe: wait4/waitpid/waitid oddness
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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.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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