From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihldt!ll1!otuxa!nwuxc!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!edwards
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: File Protection and Deletion - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1169
Posted: Sat Dec  4 22:38:02 1982
Received: Mon Dec  6 09:05:33 1982

#R:uw-beave:-23600:uicsovax:5500049:000:710
uicsovax!edwards    Dec  4 21:58:00 1982

	If the owner decides to recompile a program binary that you
  have a link to and he unlinks the file before the recompile, you WILL
  get stuck with the old copy.  If your system administrator had just
  modified the files instead of unlinking them, you would have the
  updated copy.
	 The thing I don't like about making a "delete file and all
  links" command is, when the owner cleans out his directory with that
  command removing your link too!  Although, I can think of times when
  I would have liked something like that around.

				Alan Edwards
				(...!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!edwards)

P.S.  There isn't anyway to know who has links to your files without
traversing the whole filesystem is there?