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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.

             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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