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From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Directory/File Access Permissions for COPY and Generic File Access Functions
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In response to Re: Directory/File Access Permissions for COPY and Generic File Access Functions  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> And it still doesn't protect against the case where you hardlink to a file
> and then the permissions on that file are later changed.

Fwiw that's not how hard links work, at least UFS semantics
permissions such as ext2 etc. Hard links are links to the same inode
and permissions are associated with the file. There are other
filesystems out there though. AFS for example associates permissions
with directories.


-- 
greg

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