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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:45:16 -0400
From: "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@pix.net>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.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

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