Marc Perkel writes:
>
[...]
> Now of you think "outside" the Linux box" you can see where people in
> the real world would expect that if you have no rights to a file to read
> or write to it that you shouldn't be able to delete it. In the outside
> world it's "duh - of course"! but for thouse that are in the "Unix Cult"
> you can't think past inodes.
Deleting files without read/write access to them is exactly what happens
in the real world of classified information: people who physically burn
paper folders have no right to open them. :-)
Please understand one simple thing: unlink(2) system call does not
_remove_ file. It just removes one of possibly many references to this
file from an index. To erase (a part of) a file body, one uses
truncate(2) system call that --wonders!-- requires write access to the
file.
[...]
>
> Once you'be had Netware permissions - even 1990 Netware permission - you
> are spoiled and everything else isn't even close.
>
Repeating "sugar" doesn't make it sweet.
Nikita.
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