> If you crash at (3) you can -- at least in principle -- have "link" pointing to garbage (most likely an empty file). No, I don't think you can, bugs notwiths

> If you crash at (3) you can -- at least in principle -- have "link" pointing to garbage (most likely an empty file). No, I don't think you can, bugs notwithstanding. A "link" (§3.130) is what POSIX calls a directory entry. > But there is nothing in the standard about that. The "standard" (POSIX) doesn't talk much about crashing, however if mkdir("a") could destroy "b" – even during a system crash (§3.387), then users would complain.