Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:34:56 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: iedowse@maths.tcd.ie Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd Message-ID: <199907131934.MAA37152@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199907132004.aa08685@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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In article <199907132004.aa08685@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > > Why not actually store the fake ID in a symbolic link? That way you just > do a readlink(), which would be safer, neater and faster than reading a > file. A user can set up a fake ID with something like: > > ln -s "Warm-Fuzzy" .fakeid Ick. Please, no more abuse of symbolic links! Once (malloc) was enough. Data is held in files, not in filenames. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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