Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 15 Dec 1996 13:49:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Proposal: restrict link(2) |
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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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