Quoting James Morris (jmorris@xxxxxxxxx): > On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Al Viro wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 09:48:53AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > > Are there cases I'm missing? It sounds like the API could be improved > > > to fully model the last case, and everything will work nicely. > > > > You know, that's starting to remind of this little gem of Borges: > > http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.html > > Especially the delightful (fake) quote contained in there: > > [...] it is written that the animals are divided into: > > (a) belonging to the emperor, > > (b) embalmed, > > (c) tame, > > (d) sucking pigs, > > (e) sirens, > > (f) fabulous, > > (g) stray dogs, > > (h) included in the present classification, > > (i) frenzied, > > (j) innumerable, > > (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, > > (l) et cetera, > > (m) having just broken the water pitcher, > > (n) that from a long way off look like flies. > > > Coincidentally, this was also the model for Linux capabilities. But maybe we want to split the stray dogs up by breed.
