On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Pavel Kankovsky writes:
> > Damned omnipotent root. I hate unix.
>
> Well, my feeling is that Unix is well designed.
If unix was well designed... (in random order)
- access to network ports and devices could be controlled
as easily as access to files and block devices (no stupid arbitrary
rules like port<1024 root only, port>=1024 everyone)
- {sym,hard}-link races were not that tricky
- all objects (files, processes, users...) had a non-reusable id
- it would have a real resource allocation control
- if set[ug]id programs existed at all, it would be possible to
write them in a secure way without melting one's brain
- it had a decent IPC
etc.
P.S. To whoever (I deleted more old messages than I wanted, ergo syslog
rebuttal is terminated :> ) who asked whether "feeding a log to a program
directly" was something like multilog's "!": the answer is yes.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
