In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ian Dowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Why not actually store the fake ID in a symbolic link? That way you just
> do a readlink(), which would be safer, neater and faster than reading a
> file. A user can set up a fake ID with something like:
>
> ln -s "Warm-Fuzzy" .fakeid
Ick. Please, no more abuse of symbolic links! Once (malloc) was
enough.
Data is held in files, not in filenames.
John
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