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Re: global full-text search for NetBSD



On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:22:37AM -0600, David Young wrote:
 > > >> 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? :-)
 > > 
 > > It's unlikely to be done right, especially in the first half-dozen
 > > iterations.
 > 
 > Fast-forward to 2012: there is lots of prior art in this area, and we
 > don't have to repeat the mistakes.

Fast-forward to 2012: there is lots of prior art in this area, so we
don't have to roll our own new implementation.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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