Re: link() security

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:28:16 +0100 (BST)


> > 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.

I would have to disagree. There are fundamentally different transaction
semantics between the two as well as indexing constraints. I can't for
example find commit() and rollback() in posix.1 8)

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