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SubjectRe: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ?


On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:

> > Search on the net for "weirdnix", OK? It's amusing, honest.
> >
> Hmm. AFAIK "weirdnix" is just alias for "not quite straight Unix
> implementation", no ?

No. Do yourself a favour, run it through search engines. It _is_ an
amusing story.

And as for the hacks like // - sorry, but it was done in _much_ more
elegant way 15 years ago. And the reason why I'm not pushing the
corresponding patches is very simple - we need more robust race
prevention in namei.c/dcache.c before _any_ work in that area. Otherwise
we'll just get a steaming pile of broken code. And frankly, that's about
the last place where you want races - anything here translates into root
exploits _way_ too easy.



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