Bob Proulx wrote:
> Křištof Želechovski wrote:
> > 1. Find a file in /tmp owned by somebody else and not owned by you. Say
> > a.txt.
> > 2. { ln a.txt b1.txt; } # you created b.txt based on a.txt
> > 3. { rm b1.txt; } # error: Operation not permitted.
>
> Yes this is true. But this doesn't have anything to do with either
> 'ln' or 'rm' but is instead a behavior associated with Unix
> filesystems and specifically the behavior of the sticky-bit on
> directories. It is an operating system policy. Therefore I am
> tagging this as not a bug in the bug tracking system.
There wasn't any further discussion, it is an operating system
filesystem behavior, and so I am closing this bug in the bug tracking
system for coreutils.
Bob
