Re: link() security

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    Chris Adams <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Once upon a time, H. Peter Anvin <[e-mail]> said:
> >Not to mention the fact that the single file mailbox design is itself
> >flawed.  Mailboxes are fundamentally directories, which news server
> >authors quickly realized.
> 
> Funny that news server authors realized that storing messages in files
> by themselves is a bad idea, while at the same time mail server authors
> realized that storing messages together in a single file is a bad idea.
> Which one is right?  Both?  Neither?
> 

It depends on your access patterns.  Newer news server use what I
would classify as custom filesystems (which is what binary databases
are, by and large) rather than "single files."

	-hpa
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