Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 09:51:59 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com>, config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Config Databases Message-ID: <19980423095159.61106@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <28583.893317661@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 12:47:41AM -0700 References: <199804230630.AAA15142@const.> <28583.893317661@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> >
> > Now what? What is the portal file system supposed to do with this?
>
> Silently refuse the operation. Bob would be able to save the
> passwd file, but when he looked at it again he'd see it was as
> if he'd never touched it.
Maybe bounce a message to the console ? Or a "configfs.log"...
> Confusing? Sure, at least until people get the idea, but I think it's
> the only paradigm which makes sense. Your /etc is made of rubber -
> you hit it in the wrong place and it simply bounces back like nothing
> ever happened. :)
... at least have _something_ else bounce back (call it quantum
effect :-)
--
-[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]-
«Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead
IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?»
- S. Kelly Bootle
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