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Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.


On Apr 20 15:00, Bill C. Riemers wrote:
> One obvious thing hard links allow is a way to have the same file with
> different permissions.  With a symbolic link you need both access
> permissions for the symbolic link and actual file.  i.e.
> 
>   ln -s /tmp/foo.exe /home/bcr/foo.exe
>   chmod ugo-x /tmp/foo.exe
>   chmod ugo+x /home/bcr/foo.exe
> 
> With a hardlink, you only need access permissions for the hardlink...

That's not how it works.  Hardlinks are nothing but multiple directory
entries for the same file.  The directory entry typically only consists
of a name and a inode number.  The inode contains the file specific
control information.  Obviously hardlinks to the same file point to
the same inode.  Therefore all hardlinks to the same file have the same
permissions, owner, etc, since it's *one* file with *one* owner and *one*
set of permissions.  And, yes, it's implemented on NTFS like this.


Corinna

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