Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932176AbVJEU6B (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:58:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751163AbVJEU6B (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:58:01 -0400 Received: from [63.227.222.140] ([63.227.222.140]:44207 "EHLO smtp.omgwallhack.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750832AbVJEU6A (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:58:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:57:04 -0700 From: Julian Blake Kongslie To: Bas Westerbaan Cc: Marc Perkel , 7eggert@gmx.de, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-ID: <20051005135704.4c1ac407@kolionychia.omgwallhack.org> In-Reply-To: <6880bed30510051351ja5bd5dfo5fbec9514a5cbdd7@mail.gmail.com> References: <4TiWy-4HQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4U0XH-3Gp-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <43443723.907@perkel.com> <20051005134109.757a5e42@kolionychia.omgwallhack.org> <6880bed30510051351ja5bd5dfo5fbec9514a5cbdd7@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Fists of Righteous Harmony X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Pretention: High Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Wed__5_Oct_2005_13_57_04_-0700_Buu0ZDYfRcJK_EWA; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1589 Lines: 48 --Signature_Wed__5_Oct_2005_13_57_04_-0700_Buu0ZDYfRcJK_EWA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:51:32 +0200 Bas Westerbaan wrote: > You can delete a directory entry to a file if you have proper > permission to the directory. >=20 > You cannot read or write the file if the file doesn't give you permission to. >=20 > A hard link makes an additional directory entry to a certain file. You > delete the directory entry to the file, not the file. >=20 > And permissions are the same for all instances of the file. >=20 > 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? --=20 -Julian Blake Kongslie --Signature_Wed__5_Oct_2005_13_57_04_-0700_Buu0ZDYfRcJK_EWA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Don't have my public key? Email and I'll gladly mail it to you. iD8DBQFDRD4luU009xtCYDURAmhJAKCJNKtr1TIB5O/+w5Va4F2XrTEOiwCZAeV4 XBlMDyMD0tcsw68zFkKgvJQ= =wtRG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Wed__5_Oct_2005_13_57_04_-0700_Buu0ZDYfRcJK_EWA-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/