Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <27BC2E07.673D at tct.uucp> chip at tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> Idea #2: Allow flink() only if you are the owner of the file or the
> superuser.

Idea #2': Allow link() only if you are the owner of the file or the
superuser.

Of course, these are both subsumed by a link protection bit (and O_LINK,
O_EXEC, O_NONE, etc. bits on open()).

---Dan