Hi
On Tue, 2018-05-01 at 20:03 +1200, Tony Wallace wrote:
> I am suggesting a new command for linking files. Currently there is
> no
> easy way to link a file with a known inode number to its correct
> position in the directory tree.
>
>
> int ilink(const int inode, const char *newpath)
... avoiding any permission checks on all paths to the existing names.
> The current alternative to this command is to find the file path
> associated with an inode using the find command and then once found
> using a standard link command. Obviously this is very inefficient.
That's the price for security as it requires proper permissions.
Or is this a root-only syscall?
MfG,
Bernd
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