On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:51:32 +0200 Bas Westerbaan <[email protected]> wrote: > You can delete a directory entry to a file if you have proper > permission to the directory. > > You cannot read or write the file if the file doesn't give you permission to. > > A hard link makes an additional directory entry to a certain file. You > delete the directory entry to the file, not the file. > > And permissions are the same for all instances of the file. > > My 2 cents. That is the UNIX model, yes. And I think it makes perfect sense. And as a side effect, we can delete links to files which we do not own, and cannot write to. Does NetWare have an equivalent of hardlinks? -- -Julian Blake Kongslie <[email protected]>
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