Re: Can't hardlink in different dirs. (BUG#826)

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:58:37 -0700

Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> >as well as very very hostile environments.
>
> It doesn't work at all on environments where if there's an exploited
> "quota exceeded" is a major problem.

Of course it still works! If you lock up your directories, people
can't make hardlinks. Thus no "quota leaks". What part of "lock up
your directories" don't you understand?

> The hardlink is not the only way to exploit quota but that's not a
> good point to not fix the hardlink thing. And to fix the rest a 20
> liner revoke will do the trick.

But *it's* *not* *BROKEN* *NNOOWW*. Gads. Do you chase rainbows too?

Regards,

Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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