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SubjectRe: Proposal: restrict link(2)
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> What about disabling hard links at the filesystem level for specific
> filesystems. Perhaps this could be an option in the ext2 and other fs
> code. Perhaps not a kernel issue, necessarily.

bzzzzt. how are you renaming a file without being able to create a hard link ?
there are lots of operations which need hard links (e.g. file locking).


Harald
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