On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:00:54PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 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).
Peter, I fully agree with you. It looks like you are asking for
what's been implemented though; with this change, the file is not
overwritten when multiple links exist.
Ceri
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