rm etc. (was: Nasty Security Hole?)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <17672 at adm.BRL.MIL> rbj at 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.