Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Julian Blake Kongslie <jblake@omgwallhack.org>]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:51:32 +0200
Bas Westerbaan <bas.westerbaan@gmail.com> 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
<jblake@omgwallhack.org>

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