Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion codein userspace

From: Andrew Morton (andrewm@uow.edu.au)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 08:06:02 EDT

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    Alexander Viro wrote:
    >
    > It's way past ugly.

    I knew you'd like it.

    It kind of makes sense, because it puts the two primary stream-of-bytes
    objects in Unix into the same namespace, with the same accessors.
    So if some random application is expecting a filename well heck, you
    just give it a path-to-executable with args. It won't care, although
    it may have trouble lseek()ing on it.

    It wasn't very serious at all.

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