Hard link to root-owned file now fails (since Fedora 19)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 06:32:50PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> On Fedora 18 (and every Unix since forever):
> 
> $ touch foo
> $ sudo chown root.root foo
> $ ln foo bar
> 
> On Fedora 19 & Rawhide:
> 
> $ touch foo
> $ sudo chown root.root foo
> $ ln foo bar
> ln: failed to create hard link ‘bar’ => ‘foo’: Operation not permitted
> 
> Why?

OK apparently:

http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/64493.html

So we're not following upstream here? (or rather, we're following
upstream but cheating by overriding upstream preferences).

Rich.

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