Re: Proposal: restrict link(2)

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Sat, 14 Dec 1996 01:39:50 +0100 (MET)

> What about disabling hard links at the filesystem level for specific
> filesystems. Perhaps this could be an option in the ext2 and other fs
> code. Perhaps not a kernel issue, necessarily.

bzzzzt. how are you renaming a file without being able to create a hard link ?
there are lots of operations which need hard links (e.g. file locking).

Harald

--
All SCSI disks will from now on                     ___       _____
be required to send an email notice                0--,|    /OOOOOOO\
24 hours prior to complete hardware failure!      <_/  /  /OOOOOOOOOOO\
                                                    \  \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\
                                                      \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|//
Harald Koenig,                                         \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
Inst.f.Theoret.Astrophysik                              //  /     \\  \
koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de                     ^^^^^       ^^^^^