On Mon, 2006-Oct-30 03:32:09 +0000, Xin LI wrote: > Be more reasonable when overwrite mode is specified while there > is hard links. Overwritting when links > 1 would cause data > loss, which is usually undesired.
Another way of looking at it is that not overwriting when links > 1 means that the data I thought I securely deleted is still present somewhere on my computer and I have no easy way to find it. I believe that this change creates a security hole and should be reverted. It the user specified '-P', either the file should be over-written or the file should be left untouched (not deleted). This is the only way that the user can be protected both against accidently over-writing a wanted file when an unwanted link is removed and failing to over-write an unwanted file which had a stray additional link. -- Peter Jeremy
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