From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 6 14:09:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA03643 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 14:09:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA03638 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 14:09:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA12685; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 14:52:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701062152.OAA12685@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: file locking / firewalling based on uid/gid To: proff@iq.org (Julian Assange) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 14:52:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199701022334.KAA16149@profane.iq.org> from "Julian Assange" at Jan 3, 97 10:34:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > sockfs anyone ? > > I'm all for the everything-is-a-file and the file-system name space > philosophy of Unix, which has unfortunately been badly corroded over > the years. See VSTa or plan9 for how file system name spaced should > be managed. Bleah. 8-p String processing in the kernel is a dumb idea... especially if the only reason for doing it is because you can agree to standardize words, but can't agree to standardize numeric indices for words. I would rather not carry all of those strings around, thank you. Maybe we could do something idiotic, like MD5 the words as part of the compile process, leaving a 32 bit value unlikely to repeat based different words, then MD5 the words on the way in and pass around the MD5 values instead. Then for value parameters, we could reinvent DCL CLD's. Bletch. 8~(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.