Alon Altman wrote:
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?
I was hoping to learn something new from the answers, but I have to
admit that I didn't expect anything like that.
WHY can root unlink a non-empty directory? Why is that useful? What's
the difference between that and "rm -r", and when would I want to use that?
Congrats, Alon. Not only did you not answer my question, you've added to
the mystery :-)
Alon
Shachar
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