From: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: link() security
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:01:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020415200143.E431@marta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16xFtQ-0007Gp-00@the-village.bc.nu> <3CBB5ECB.2040002@zytor.com>
Scribbling feverishly on April 15, H. Peter Anvin managed to emit:
[schnip]
> The point was mostly that storing mail in a (basically) unstructured
> flat-file format isn't really consistent with the operations you want to
> perform on it. I didn't mean the directory/file format was necessarily
> the ultimate solution, only that (a) it works better than mbox, (b) it's
> been around for a long time.
[nod]
I suppose it made sense back when we made our 1s and 0s by hand, but
whoever (would dare) take credit for "designing" the UNIX mbox "format"
needs a remedial course if file format design.
K
--
Are you ever going to do the dishes? Or will you change your major to biology?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-16 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-11 23:21 link() security xystrus
2002-04-12 1:15 ` Chris Wright
2002-04-13 16:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-13 17:02 ` xystrus
2002-04-14 1:49 ` Chris Wright
2002-04-15 14:44 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-04-15 19:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-15 22:48 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-15 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-15 23:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-15 23:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-16 0:01 ` Kurt Wall [this message]
2002-04-15 21:41 ` xystrus
2002-05-06 5:00 ` Albert D. Cahalan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-13 17:48 Hank Leininger
2002-04-15 19:36 Chris Adams
2002-04-15 19:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-15 20:36 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-04-16 1:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
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