Subject: re: Addition to force open to open only regular files
To: Jarom r Dolecek <dolecek@ibis.cz>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/13/2000 20:56:27
   matthew green wrote:
   > you're asking that the library trust it's caller.  that will never be
   > the case....as much as we would like it to be.
   
   Why not ? Clearly I'm missing something obvious.


quite simply the library has *NO IDEA* who called it.  trust can't exist.


.mrg.