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

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:27:41 +0100


Hi!

> But the fact that we don't have a working revoke() is the more important
> problem. Forget local attacks. What about telnet to port 80, type GET
> /~user/bigassgif.gif, and hit ^]^Z so the transfer will never finish? rm
> needs some teeth for such situations.

You don't need revoke() to do this. Just > ~user/bigassgif.gif; rm
~user/bigassgif.gif will work in all cases. Anybody adding option to
rm to do exactly this?
Pavel

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