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Matthew Dillon wrote:
  [lost attribution. Nick wrote this]
> :
> :What we _really_ need is some mechanism to recognize the difference
> :between a user program and a system library, with an eye towards
> :granting privileges to trusted libraries without letting those privileges
> :leak past the library in question.
> 
>     Oh god, its MULTICS!  Run! Run! Run for the hills!

See? Final proof that those who don't know history are bound
to repeat it. :-)


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