> I'm only blurring the boundary between kernel and user-land because
> when you get down to these kinds of things the boundary _should_ be
> blurry.

When you're defining APIs, the last thing you want is blurry anything.

> Just as the unix filesystem has namei(), SysV IPC has ftok().

namei() is not an API.  ftok() is.

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