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SubjectRe: what's next for the linux kernel?
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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-Julian Blake Kongslie
<jblake@omgwallhack.org>
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