Messages in this thread |  | | From | Snow Cat <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: restrict link(2) | Date | Sun, 15 Dec 1996 10:57:25 -0800 (PST) |
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Harald Koenig once wrote: > > I'm always asking *why* (for which reason, or maybe better which purpose) > something is done/allowed/not allowed/implemented/... > > for the question "why is a user allowed to create hard like to files of other users" > I haven't found any positive answer yet (please don't tell me > "that's UNIX fs semantics" again;) > > and I found/read no answer so far what we'd break if we would change > the behaviour of link(). I still think that it *absolute* no > real application will be affected... >
Hard links are pretty useful for sharing large files. When I was in university, I used to make links to large programs compiled by other users - like gdb, irc, etc. In this way it didn't take any additional disk space and if the owner deleted the program later, I still had a copy.
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