Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Proposal: restrict link(2) | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:21:36 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Well, there are other possible solutions, but they'd require > a lot more work. COnsider extending ext2fs to include, in each file's > metadata, a list (possibly long!) of the inodes of all the directories > containing hard links to the file. There would be excruciating race > conditions, of course, but with such a scheme you might:
This is all old old hat from the BSD world. The conventional solution is that when there seems to be a problem a quick pass with find, rm and userdel fixes the issue ;)
Alan
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