On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Al Viro wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 09:48:53AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> > Are there cases I'm missing?  It sounds like the API could be improved
> > to fully model the last case, and everything will work nicely.
> 
>       You know, that's starting to remind of this little gem of Borges:
> http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.html
> Especially the delightful (fake) quote contained in there:
> [...] it is written that the animals are divided into:
>       (a) belonging to the emperor,
>       (b) embalmed,
>       (c) tame,
>       (d) sucking pigs,
>       (e) sirens,
>       (f) fabulous,
>       (g) stray dogs,
>       (h) included in the present classification,
>       (i) frenzied,
>       (j) innumerable,
>       (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
>       (l) et cetera,
>       (m) having just broken the water pitcher,
>       (n) that from a long way off look like flies.


Coincidentally, this was also the model for Linux capabilities.


-- 
James Morris
<jmor...@namei.org>

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