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From: mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.bugs.misc,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Hard Links between UNIX Utility Programs
Keywords: unix links bsd sysv sys5
Message-ID: <184@chip.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 88 17:50:28 GMT
Organization: M/A-COM Government Systems Inc., San Diego, CA
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I have noticed the tendency for some programs in UNIX to have hard links.
The program operation is then determined by the name it was invoked by.
As a system administrator this makes it very difficult for me to restrict
one program without restricting all their linked set.  And the problems
is not just simply removing the hard link, since experimentations have
proved that symbolic links do the same.  Thereby preventing restriction
again.

I'd like to request that in future releases, this short-cut be eliminated.


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