From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 16 4:43:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C249C151E3 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:43:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25895; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA11070; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:42:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA26010; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:42:34 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199903161242.EAA26010@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:42:33 -0800 In-Reply-To: Robert Watson "Re: ACL's" (Mar 14, 12:24pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: Robert Watson , Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: ACL's Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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