On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 07:45:01PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Any filesystem corruption is due to a filesystem bug.  A user application 
> cannot, by definition, corrupt any filesystem unless it runs as root and 
> therefore has sufficient privileges to open the filesystem partition as a 
> block device, and scribble random bits all over the place.

In some O/Ses you can get a wrong link count by unlink()ing a directory. But
you still need to be root to do that.

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