Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:09:42 -0400


> DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic@uni-mb.si> wrote:
> > Oops, I forgot that symlinks have no permissions...
> > And even if they had , it wouldn't work anyway :-(

> I can think of a potential solution for this issue:
>
> Create something new which is like symlinks, but which has its own
> permissions. Since these permissions would allow things that would
> otherwise be impossible (otherwise, what's the point?), a few restrictions
> would be necessary. For example:

That is a kludge to solve a problem that a kludge introduces.

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