(about flink/fattach)
> According to the Digital Unix man page, there is some odd
> behavior with the UID (why?), but it also says:
> Note that although the attributes of the attached file may
> change (see the chmod() reference page), the underlying
> object's attributes will not change accordingly.
>
> Of course, creating a link to something you don't own is a great
> way to abuse the quota system. Just like chown(), it should not
> be allowed. (at the very least we could require write access to
> the object itself!)
You can also "abuse" the quota system with hardlinks, for that matter:
hardlink someone's big files in a directory of yours. Doing it with
flink wouldn't make it any worse than doing it with link...
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