Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:08:01 +0100 | From | Harald Anlauf <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: restrict link(2) |
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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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