On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:20:41 +0000 Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
find /mountpoint -type f -inum <inode_number>
> > 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.
But I too agree that this maybe should be backed out until it is
further discussed. I wasn't aware of the capabilities of our ln(1)
when I suggested the patch.
Joerg
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