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SubjectRe: [RFC] Rights for hardlinks
Arvind Sankar wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > Access != write permissions.
>
> I think he has a point, though. You can hardlink even to a file with 0 perms.

The mode of the file is irrelevant. Access to a file is ruled by the
permissions on the directory or directories leading to the file. Access
to the *contents* of the file depends on the mode of the file itself. A
directory contains files, the files contain data.

This according to the traditional Unix file permissions model, which is
quite logical, IMHO.

Johan Myréen
jem@iki.fi

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