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SubjectRe: pre-patch2.1.45-3 lookin' good
At 07:39 PM 7/14/97 -0400, linux kernel account wrote:
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>
>On 15 Jul 1997, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
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>> What's next? Schroedinger's files (may or may not exist)? ;-)
>
>Wow.. That realls summs up the development kernels..
>I've been very impressed with the progress.. Keep it up.. :)
>And I *personally* would like to see symbolic links in proc.. Maby a mount
>option.. Maby even /proc/names/ which would have process names as symlinks
>to their pids... and /proc/users/username/ with links to that users
>pids... I dont think there would be security concers that a proc option to
>not show stuff thats not yours (unless you = root) couldn't fix..
>
/proc/names is not possible (not that way, anyway), since processes aren't
named. If you mean command-lines, that isn't possible either, since it
isn't a 1:1 mapping (5 "-bash"es are normal).

> I perpose we add a new device: Schroedinger's Penguin! /dev/schro_peng..
>It will randomly return "penguin alive\n" or "penguin dead\n" whenever you
>read it.. But you never know until you do.. :)
>
>Or how about Pavlov's Dog device.. It's sorta like binfmt_misc.. It's
>learns to respond to character sequences on ptys.. Like ^G^G^G...

But putting a dog in the kernel would give us too many oopses to clean up
after! (It was just too easy!)

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