Subject: Re: magic symlinks: uid keyword translation
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/30/2006 15:35:34
On Oct 30, 2006, at 8:38 AM, der Mouse wrote:
>>>> (which probably in part explained the change from per-mount to
>> sysctl-global, as a way of encouraging the feature to just fade away
>> :) .
>
> Lovely. "I don't like this feature, so I'll break it to get people to
> stop using it, even though I'm providing no substitute." I really
> hope
> that's not the true explanation.
that was NOT the motivation for making it a system global.
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