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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:23:51 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Symbolic links in dirs with 't' bit ???
Message-ID:  <9502222223.AA08672@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199502222038.VAA18483@keltia.frmug.fr.net>
References:  <199502222038.VAA18483@keltia.frmug.fr.net>

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<<On Wed, 22 Feb 1995 21:37:59 +0100 (MET), Ollivier Robert <Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net> said:

> He's right, I do not think it is a good behaviour of symlinks... You should
> be able to delete any file/link you've created in a public directory.

I think the suggested solution was to allow the unlink if the
directory is sticky and the TARGET does not exist or exists and is
owned by the same user...

-GAWollman

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