From: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, nacc@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] VFS: fixes a bug in sys_linkat()
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:32:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158111142.6967.105.camel@ram.us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060913011100.GC29920@ftp.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 02:11 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:57:38PM -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> > Hardlink using sys_linkat() returns EXDEV when the source and the destination
> > point to the same filesystem, residing under different mounts.
>
> ... and that is absolutely deliberate. Ability to restrict links to
> a subtree is a deliberate feature.
But wondering what side effects will it have if we allowed it to create
hardlinks?
RP
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-13 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-13 0:57 Ram Pai
2006-09-13 1:11 ` Al Viro
2006-09-13 1:32 ` Ram Pai [this message]
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