Re: Enabling hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS in 3.6 by default

2012-10-26 Thread Kees Cook
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Holger Kiehl wrote: >> >> as of linux 3.6 hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS have been enabled >> by default. This breaks the application AFD [1] of which I am the author. > > Ok, we had a previous repo

Re: Enabling hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS in 3.6 by default

2012-10-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Holger Kiehl wrote: > > as of linux 3.6 hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS have been enabled > by default. This breaks the application AFD [1] of which I am the author. Ok, we had a previous report of breakage, but that was just local scripting. Since that was

Re: Enabling hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS in 3.6 by default

2012-10-26 Thread Holger Kiehl
Hello Kees, first, many thanks for trying to help! On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Kees Cook wrote: Hi Holger, On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:13:40PM +, Holger Kiehl wrote: as of linux 3.6 hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS have been enabled by default. This breaks the application AFD [1] of which

Re: Enabling hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS in 3.6 by default

2012-10-25 Thread Kees Cook
Hi Holger, On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:13:40PM +, Holger Kiehl wrote: > as of linux 3.6 hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS have been enabled > by default. This breaks the application AFD [1] of which I am the author. Sorry this created a problem for you! > Internally it uses hardlink to d

Enabling hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS in 3.6 by default

2012-10-25 Thread Holger Kiehl
Hello, as of linux 3.6 hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS have been enabled by default. This breaks the application AFD [1] of which I am the author. Internally it uses hardlink to distribute files. The reason for hardlinks is that AFD can distribute one file to many destinations and for each