Re: Can't hardlink in different dirs. (BUG#826)

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:49:33 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:

>Andrea, WHAT FOR? Give a rationale for your change, other than "let's
>change it". Name a single benefit of proposed semantics.

The rational is that I don't want to see my inodes sparse around the fs by
an luser. I don't want to find them in /tmp. I don't care if he takes them
opened, the root can kill his tasks and the fs layout will return normal
then. It's a namespace issue. If I put my inode in my directory it must
not finish into /tmp after some time by somebody that has nothing to do
with me.

Andrea

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