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    SubjectRe: fsync on large files
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    In message <19990222225331.03522@execpc.com>, Mitchell Blank Jr writes:
    +-----
    | Wayne Schlitt wrote:
    | > You could royally screw up your file system with the ln command as
    | > root, I don't even recall if ln checked for directories or if you had
    | > to add a flag to force it.
    |
    | I don't think that's true... ln(1) doesn't seem to touch directories, nor
    | does there seem to be an obvious flag (nor is one documented in the man
    | page). UID 0 could call link(2) on a directory, though:
    +--->8

    AT&T System III shipped with /etc/link and /etc/unlink, "raw" versions of
    ln and rm that didn't do the normal sanity checking. Root could use them to
    perform otherwise "illegal" operations.

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    carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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