Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:42:33 -0800 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACL's Message-ID: <199903161242.EAA26010@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> "Re: ACL's" (Mar 14, 12:24pm)
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On Mar 14, 12:24pm, Robert Watson wrote: } Subject: Re: ACL's } I think hard links are neat, et al, but I really don't think they add any } new useful functionality above symlinks, and they can certainly introduce } new problems. They save a little disk space here and there (as long as } you don't recursive move anything)... I've seen hard links used to implement a simple locking scheme that can be used by shell scripts. The first place I encountered this was C News. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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