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

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 21:52:48 +0100


Hi!

> > I completly agree with you that the suid hardlink issue is not a good
> > point for the above issues. Doing >suid is the right thing to do.
> >
> > But for the quota forbidding the hardlink in such case is a good point
> > IMHO.
>
> Same mechanism. If I see that foo is nearing the quota I can nohup the
> _small_ program that will run through foo's directories every hour and
> open everything new. If I'll be in really nasty mood I'll send it to
> myself through AF_UNIX socketpair and come out clean on fuser (and avoid
> running afoul of descriptor limits). Heavy LART and nearly undetectable
> one - fuser comes empty, process doesn't stand out in top or ps output,
> no extra links, no nothing. And quota running down.

Is not this bug of fuser? I mean, if someone has file opened, should
not it be visible by fuser?
Pavel

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