Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:52:34 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on |
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> What does this have to do with private namespaces?
Albert asked what to do if /var/spool/mail dies and every user has his own namespace. Well, don't let him play with /var/spool/mail directly...
> mailfsd /dev/coda0 --enable-imap & > mount /dev/coda0 /var/spool/mail > > It looks easy to me, today and without private namespaces. > [Shall I hack podfuk into providing imap? Okay, it would not be easy > because > * /var/spool/mail/xxx is _writable_, so your imap dream is probably > dream. What does your mailfs do when someone does cat /bin/bash > > $MYMAIL
Commit-on-close is one of the obvious variants...
> * podfuk is has file granularity > > I could see it working with some kind of directory format, however.]
Yep. And quite a few mailreaders can work with that. I'm less than sure that CODA's local caching is appropriate, though. More RPC-oriented stub in the kernel might augment it quite fine and in that case it would probably work better. Or not...
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