Subject: Re: magic symlinks: uid keyword translation
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/30/2006 15:36:13
On Oct 30, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:34:16AM -0500, Chapman Flack wrote:
>> Did I get the wrong sense from that earlier discussion?
>
> I think so. Doing @booted_kernel was (as I understood the discussion)
> perceived as yet another way to retrieve existing information and
> represent it in some random other way, while not solving new problems.

The other problem is that @booted_kernel could point to (potentially  
dangerous) incorrect information in many circumstances.

>
> Martin

-- thorpej