From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: link() security
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:36:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020415143641.A46232@hiwaay.net> (raw)
Once upon a time, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> said:
>Not to mention the fact that the single file mailbox design is itself
>flawed. Mailboxes are fundamentally directories, which news server
>authors quickly realized.
Funny that news server authors realized that storing messages in files
by themselves is a bad idea, while at the same time mail server authors
realized that storing messages together in a single file is a bad idea.
Which one is right? Both? Neither?
--
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
next reply other threads:[~2002-04-15 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-15 19:36 Chris Adams [this message]
2002-04-15 19:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-15 20:36 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-04-16 1:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-13 17:48 Hank Leininger
2002-04-11 23:21 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
2002-04-15 21:41 ` xystrus
2002-05-06 5:00 ` Albert D. Cahalan
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