Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 19 May 2001 22:06:02 +1000 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion codein userspace |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > > It's way past ugly.
I knew you'd like it.
It kind of makes sense, because it puts the two primary stream-of-bytes objects in Unix into the same namespace, with the same accessors. So if some random application is expecting a filename well heck, you just give it a path-to-executable with args. It won't care, although it may have trouble lseek()ing on it.
It wasn't very serious at all.
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