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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:52:43 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/killall killall.1 killall.c src/usr.sbin Makefile src/usr.sbin/jail jail.8 jail.c src/usr.sbin/jexec Makefile jexec.8 jexec.c src/usr.sbin/jls Makefile jls.8 jls.c
Message-ID:  <20030409235243.GI30960@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030409194655.31027C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0304091639540.30429-100000@root.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030409194655.31027C-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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* Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> [030409 16:48] wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > 
> > > And what kind of path seperator is '.'?
> > 
> > Exactly.  What you're describing would be better implemented as a
> > pseudo-fs layer.  In fact, that would remove the need for separate j*
> > utilities. 
> 
> I thought we were trying to get away from synthetic file systems with
> terrible security properties.  In fact, we specifically toasted procfs
> because it behaved so badly; kernfs went down the tubes because the
> semantic match was very poor, and sysctl is in.

Whatever, path components should be path components.



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