Hard links: Why?

[Bob Goudreau]

In article <KPC00.90Aug4235838 at JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>,
kpc00 at JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (kpc) writes:
> 
>    Lets take it one step further. Suppose You have a quota and you
>    fave a file XXX. Joe Schmo cretes a hrd link to file XXX. Later you
>    delete the file, but XXX exists as another file name, so your quota
>    is still charged for file XXX. This can happen, also Joe Schmo
> 
> Maybe the system's quota or file ownership policies can be changed?
> For example, if you unlink the file, perhaps the file can be somehow
> put in his quota?

... or maybe the BSD implementation of quotas is simply a hack.

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