From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: link() security
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:05:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CBB5C9F.6020001@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16xFGx-0007As-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>>Not to mention the fact that the single file mailbox design is itself
>>flawed. Mailboxes are fundamentally directories, which news server
>>authors quickly realized.
>
> And then unrealized when they hit performance limitations. Its a trade off
> and one that most news systems seem to prefer to use a custom database
> for
Well, a database is basically a custom filesystem.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-15 23:05 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 [this message]
2002-04-15 23:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-15 23:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-16 0:01 ` Kurt Wall
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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