Ed W wrote:
> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 07:01:45PM +0000, Ed W wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Content, and basic properties. Hashifying a file owned by root and one
>>>> owned by a user would be rather bad...
>>>>
>>
> ..
>
>> well, it would just be wrong, because the user
>> would not want to have his/her file owned by root
>> and probably root wouldn't want to have the file
>> owned by some (maybe not even local) user :)
>>
>
>
> OK, so the ownership info is a function of the file itself and not the
> link? That would explain the problem and also why the link check is as
> it is
Hard links are just more references to an inode. The inode has all the
data and metadata; the only link-specific property is the name.
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Daniel Hokka Zakrisson