Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, [email protected] wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:40:47 PST, dean gaudet said:
> 
> > the main worry i have is some user maliciously hardlinks everything
> > under /var/log somewhere else and slowly fills up the file system with
> > old rotated logs.
> 
> "Doctor, it hurts when I do this.." "Well, don't do that then".

actually it doesn't hurt.  i have other mechanisms which would pick this 
up fairly quickly.

-dean
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References:
- RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
  - From: Mark Lord <[email protected]>
- Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
  - From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
- Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
  - From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
- Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
  - From: Mark Lord <[email protected]>
- Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
  - From: David Newall <[email protected]>
- Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
  - From: dean gaudet <[email protected]>
- Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
  - From: David Newall <[email protected]>
- Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
  - From: dean gaudet <[email protected]>
- Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
  - From: David Newall <[email protected]>
- Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
  - From: dean gaudet <[email protected]>
- Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
  - From: [email protected]

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