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Subject: Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not
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On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 19:51, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In the meantime, it might just be possible to take a look at the uid, and 
> if the uid matches use find_group_other, but for non-matching uids use 
> find_group_dir. That gives a "compact for same users, distribute for 
> different users" heuristic, which might be acceptable for normal use (and 
> the theoretical cleanup tool could fix it up).

Factoring the uid/gid/pid in actually may help in other ways. If we are
doing it by pid or by uid we will reduce the interleave of multiple
files thing you sometimes get

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