Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:57:04 -0700 | From | Julian Blake Kongslie <> | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:51:32 +0200 Bas Westerbaan <bas.westerbaan@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can delete a directory entry to a file if you have proper > permission to the directory. > > You cannot read or write the file if the file doesn't give you permission to. > > A hard link makes an additional directory entry to a certain file. You > delete the directory entry to the file, not the file. > > And permissions are the same for all instances of the file. > > My 2 cents.
That is the UNIX model, yes. And I think it makes perfect sense. And as a side effect, we can delete links to files which we do not own, and cannot write to.
Does NetWare have an equivalent of hardlinks?
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