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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem
Message-ID: <28684:Feb1714:46:2491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 91 14:46:24 GMT
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In article <27BC2E07.673D@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> Idea #2: Allow flink() only if you are the owner of the file or the
> superuser.

Idea #2': Allow link() only if you are the owner of the file or the
superuser.

Of course, these are both subsumed by a link protection bit (and O_LINK,
O_EXEC, O_NONE, etc. bits on open()).

---Dan