Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mtuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtuxn!rubin From: rubin@mtuxn.UUCP (M.RUBIN) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: extracting files with tar can corrupt the file system Message-ID: <577@mtuxn.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 21:09:41 EDT Article-I.D.: mtuxn.577 Posted: Tue Jul 2 21:09:41 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 08:48:15 EDT References: <2939@sdcc3.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel NJ Lines: 8 Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:13705 net.bugs.4bsd:1581 I actually had to unlink() a directory a few months ago... it had been corrupted (I'm not sure whether it was a disk error, or an untrained person with the root password) so as to contain a hard link to itself, other than "." . "rmdir" refused to remove it on the grounds that it wasn't empty, so I had to write a program calling unlink() to zap it. --Mike Rubin (formerly: rubin@columbia-20.arpa, or columbia!rubin) (now: {ihnp4, rest of AT&T}!mtuxn!newtech!rubin )