Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:17:00 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ? |
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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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