Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:01:43 -0400 | From | Kurt Wall <> | Subject | Re: link() security |
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Scribbling feverishly on April 15, H. Peter Anvin managed to emit:
[schnip]
> The point was mostly that storing mail in a (basically) unstructured > flat-file format isn't really consistent with the operations you want to > perform on it. I didn't mean the directory/file format was necessarily > the ultimate solution, only that (a) it works better than mbox, (b) it's > been around for a long time.
[nod]
I suppose it made sense back when we made our 1s and 0s by hand, but whoever (would dare) take credit for "designing" the UNIX mbox "format" needs a remedial course if file format design.
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