Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:45:16 -0400 From: "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@pix.net> To: Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3_Jakub_Dawidek?= <nick@garage.freebsd.pl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardlinks... Message-ID: <20020408144516.B2035@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <200204081841.g38Ifi104580@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:41:44AM -0700 References: <20020408113423.Y81506-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <200204081841.g38Ifi104580@mass.dis.org>
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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:41:44AM -0700, Michael Smith wrote: > You could also use this technique to maliciously exhaust a user's quota, > by linking to their temporary files. I'm not sure what the standards > have to say about this, but I don't much like the current behaviour. The truely paranoid ftruncate the file size to zero if the link count is larger than one. -Kurt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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