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SubjectRe: Proposal: restrict link(2)

<suggestion>

Part of the problem can (and should?) be solved by a new option to
rm(1):

--truncate Truncates the file to length 0 before removing.
This solves some problems when a file has been
hard-linked by another (malicious?) user and quotas
are enabled. Works not only under Linux, but AIX, OSF/1,
HP/UX, ...
See the respective man pages of truncate and ftruncate.

BUGS:
Sorry, it isn't part of POSIX (AFAIK), but AES (maybe XPG4?).

</suggestion>

-Harald

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