Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:16:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> Cc: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>, Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, NetBSD Kernel <tech-kern@netbsd.org> Subject: Re: Improving the Unix API y, Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906272114040.88567-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906271154530.24019-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
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On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
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> As for the opening with no permissions - well, it would make *big* sense
> if we could narrow down the API and move chown(), chmod(), etc. into libc
> leaving f-variants in the kernel. Binary compatibility... Extreme variant
> might include {set,get}sockopt extended to files and doing both *stat and
> *ch{mod,own,flags} via that. Out of curiosity - did somebody on *BSD side
> play with that?
>
Actually, instead of *big* sense, that makes *no* sense.
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