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SubjectRe: Proposal: restrict link(2)

koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Harald Koenig) wrote on 14.12.96 in <m0vYi8s-0001hKC@ceres.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>:

> > 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).

For example, this is the reason that rcs breaks on ncpfs filesystems (at
least with early 2.0 kernels).

I certainly don't want a home directory where I can't use rcs.

MfG Kai

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