Re: link() security

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alan Cox wrote:
>>Not to mention the fact that the single file mailbox design is itself
>>flawed.  Mailboxes are fundamentally directories, which news server
>>authors quickly realized.
>
> And then unrealized when they hit performance limitations. Its a trade off
> and one that most news systems seem to prefer to use a custom database
> for

Well, a database is basically a custom filesystem.

	-hpa