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From: rubin@mtuxn.UUCP (M.RUBIN)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: extracting files with tar can corrupt the file system
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 21:09:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 21:09:41 1985
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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 )