Hmmm... Seems like "not writable by" might be more likely than "not owned by." While I can't
think of a specific instance, I imagine that disallowing hard links in /tmp might confuse a
couple things.
(But think of all the race conditions we might close! Oh, wait, that's mostly symlinks.)
Posted Aug 20, 2008 22:29 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
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Yes it does confuse a few things. Not in /tmp, but surprisingly, in /var/spool/atjobs! I
solved it by augmenting the batch to allow an exception for system UIDs (uid < 1000, or
whatever you specified as an exception).