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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: filenames with a '/'  -- help
Message-ID: <E3K1IQExds13@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 5 Feb 90 18:41:39 GMT
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In article <25C7178C.6F8@marob.masa.com> cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) writes:
> A reasonable way to implement capabilities would be to use the inode plus
> some random bits.

A more reasonable way would be to hide them behind a file descriptor.

See the related discussions about enhancing the UNIX system, in particular
the part about o_open(fd, newmode), and open(name, O_TOKEN).
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