From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 13 12:35:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A7F14C8E for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:35:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA21092; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:34:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA37152; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:34:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907131934.MAA37152@vashon.polstra.com> To: iedowse@maths.tcd.ie Subject: Re: a BSD identd In-Reply-To: <199907132004.aa08685@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199907132004.aa08685@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, Ian Dowse 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