From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] allow
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:18:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200007141418.KAA00244@cse.psu.edu> (raw)
"Allow" is a wretched thing. It was put in the original file server code for
bootstrapping, and only gets turned on during administrative hell. When
that code was adapted to form kfs, the same necessity led to the same
solution, but it is a far more dangerous, nasty, foul thing in that context.
The reason is that the stand-alone file server has a true console and is not
a general-purpose operating system, while kfs runs as a traditional file
server on a general-purpose machine.
Better ideas (short of a superuser) are welcome.
-rob
next reply other threads:[~2000-07-14 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-14 14:18 rob pike [this message]
2000-07-15 0:25 ` arisawa
2000-07-15 16:20 ` arisawa
2000-07-14 18:51 pip
2000-07-15 0:18 ` Randolph Fritz
2000-07-16 22:54 presotto
2000-07-17 15:11 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-07-17 21:14 ` arisawa
2005-02-07 7:11 tapique
2005-02-07 7:31 ` Lucio De Re
2005-02-07 10:19 ` Heiko Dudzus
2005-02-07 10:57 ` Lucio De Re
2005-02-07 7:32 ` arisawa
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