Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

From: dean gaudet
Date: Sat Dec 29 2007 - 22:55:39 EST


On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:40:47 PST, dean gaudet said:
>
> > the main worry i have is some user maliciously hardlinks everything
> > under /var/log somewhere else and slowly fills up the file system with
> > old rotated logs.
>
> "Doctor, it hurts when I do this.." "Well, don't do that then".

actually it doesn't hurt. i have other mechanisms which would pick this
up fairly quickly.

-dean
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