> Again, until you've removed your link _other_ links do not
> matter. And once you've removed it it will not be used to create
> new ones anyway. I still don't see anything you could buy
> prohibiting link().
Think chroot(). Think chmod() (by the admin after the "rogue"
link()). I think the change in semantics is reasonable. Hardlinks
are seldom used by ordinary users, anyway, since they can't cross
device boundaries.
Kjetil T.
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