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SubjectRe: Can't hardlink in different dirs. (BUG#826)
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Richard Gooch writes the following:
>
>Andrea Arcangeli writes:
>> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
>>
>> >as well as very very hostile environments.
>>
>> It doesn't work at all on environments where if there's an exploited
>> "quota exceeded" is a major problem.
>
>Of course it still works! If you lock up your directories, people
>can't make hardlinks. Thus no "quota leaks". What part of "lock up
>your directories" don't you understand?

And what if you want to share your files without opening yourself up to
quota attacks by people holding your files open and/or linked? Have you never
heard of $HOME/public_html?

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