On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know WHY only root can create hard links to directories? What is
the attack/problem this permission restriction is trying to solve?
Because only root can unlink a non-empty directory?
Alon
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