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Re: global full-text search for NetBSD



On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 04:30:25PM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> > If you agree that the core system ought to be useful, coherent,
> > seamlessly expandable, and scalable,
> 
> ...none of which are objective measurements, and most of which are
> fairly pure opinion...

I would say that they're values that one may or may not hold about the
operating systems core.  We may have different values.  In fact, I'm
pretty sure that you and I do.

> Especially for multi-user machines, on which it is hard for something
> like this to avoid leaking information across permission boundaries
> it's not supposed to cross.

So what if it's hard? :-)

Dave

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