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

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 23:47:22 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:

>The last time: your change does not increase security. Sigh... Andrea,

You say again for the open(2) issue? As I just said the open(2) is
possible only due the lazyness of not having implemented revoke(2) yet.

Just because fixing hardlinks is not enough it doesn't mean it's in the
wrong direction.

Andrea

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