Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!uflorida!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: rm etc. (was: Nasty Security Hole?) Message-ID: <9031@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 1 Dec 88 18:36:56 GMT References: <17672@adm.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 16 In article <17672@adm.BRL.MIL> rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes: >? This is wrong, of course: the names go on the lines ... >Strictly speaking, yes. However, if you limit the discussion to >directorys only, and don't allow hard links to directorys (a practice >even I have resisted), then you can move the names into the (i)nodes. No, Joe was right and you're wrong. Consider (rootdir) / \ (subdirA) (subdirB) \ / (whatsit) By putting names on the inodes you have made it impossible to properly show that whatsit's name is different in the two subdirs containing it.