In article <199907132004.aa08...@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, Ian Dowse <iedo...@maths.tcd.ie> 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 -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
