Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Suggested new user link command | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Tue, 01 May 2018 11:03:07 +0200 |
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Hi
On Tue, 2018-05-01 at 20:03 +1200, Tony Wallace wrote: > I am suggesting a new command for linking files. Currently there is > no > easy way to link a file with a known inode number to its correct > position in the directory tree. > > > int ilink(const int inode, const char *newpath)
... avoiding any permission checks on all paths to the existing names.
> The current alternative to this command is to find the file path > associated with an inode using the find command and then once found > using a standard link command. Obviously this is very inefficient.
That's the price for security as it requires proper permissions. Or is this a root-only syscall?
MfG, Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at
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