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For a minute the last line made me doubt myself. But a quick test and no, I did remember right: at least on ext*, permissions are stored in the inode.
STOP DOING HARDLINKSINODES WERE NOT MEANT TO EXIST IN MULTIPLE DIRECTORIES
YEARS OF FILES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for being in more than one directory
Wanted to reference files from more than one directory anyway? We had a tool for that: it was called "SYMLINKS"
"Yes please give me FIFTEEN paths that this file resolves to" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
"Hello I would like different permissions on this file based on path" They have played us for absolute fools
