On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Ben Boeckel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:07:57 -0400, Lee Winter wrote:
> > That problem exists with copies, but not with links.  After all, file
> sharing
> > is the very purpose of links.  I would prefer symbolic links so that
> defective
> > tools cannot trash the original input files, but a read-only hard link
> would
> > probably suffice.
>
> Hard links share the same permissions, so a "read only" hard link means
> *all* instances are read only.


Exactly.


> There's also nothing preventing tools
> from writing through symlinks at all (it's how my dotfiles system
> works).
>

Yes there is.  The referred-to file can be RO, which symlink accessors
cannot override.

Lee Winter
Nashua, New Hampshire
United States of America

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