Subject: Re: utmp file format change
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/21/2001 21:15:51
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:30:31PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:15:43PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> > Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> >
> > >Note that this need not necessarily be based on some `background daemon'. A
> > >special device node with in-kernel emulation would also work; such a device
> >
> > but why do things in the kernel that can be implemented in userland?
>
> Don't we have a special filesystem which can be abused for this type of
> stunts?
I think PORTAL.
-is