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Subject: Re: ps performance sucks (was Re: dcache_rcu [performance results])
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 00:59, Alexander Viro wrote:

> Oh, yes it can.  Easily.
> 	* device is not network-transparent - even in principle
> 	* restricting data access would be harder - welcome to suid or
> sgid country
> 	* real killer: you think Albert would fail to produce equally
> crappy code and equally crappy behaviour?  Yeah, right.

Well I think Rik and I can handle it in our tree :)

But I agree - I do not care much for this /dev idea either.

	Robert Love

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