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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:20:42 +0100
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> > /bin could be separated (like linus said) but cat /bin/.compound could
> > do it. This is the /etc/passwd Hans' example, I think:
> 
> Arghhhh.  I wrote it down to ridicule the idea and now people
> are taking it seriously ;(
> 
> It should be obvious enough that anything depending on the
> kernel parsing file contents will lead to problems.

This is one case where the kernel _isn't_ parsing file contents,
but I agree it's ridiculous :)

-- Jamie