Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:36:06 +0000 (GMT) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: restrict link(2) |
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > 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. > > If the owner deleted the program because they ran out of disk quota, > you made sure that _they_ still owned a copy. You did not have a copy. > > I'd say this is a reason to restrict link() to the file owner.
No, it's a reason for somebody to write support for a Solaris-like loopback mount system for Linux. That way you can mount every user's home directory seperately, and thus prevent people from making links between directories.
phil
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