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

Jan Kara (jack@suse.cz)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 14:54:30 +0100

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> Hi!
>
> > But the fact that we don't have a working revoke() is the more important
> > problem. Forget local attacks. What about telnet to port 80, type GET
> > /~user/bigassgif.gif, and hit ^]^Z so the transfer will never finish? rm
> > needs some teeth for such situations.
>
> You don't need revoke() to do this. Just > ~user/bigassgif.gif; rm
> ~user/bigassgif.gif will work in all cases. Anybody adding option to
> rm to do exactly this?
By this you will get rid of problems with data blocks but not with inodes.
I agree that data blocks are more important but the problem will be still
+there...

Honza.

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