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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Justin Banks <justinb@bakbone.com>
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Subject: Re: Out of tree module using LSM
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:12:38PM -0700, Justin Banks wrote:

> It's not perfect, but as was recently pointed out, if you can only get
> 98% of the way there rather than 100% is that a reason for not trying to
> make it possible?

BTW, that's a fine example of a common fallacy: "$FOO is 98% of the way to
$TARGET" does not allow to interpolate the properties of $TARGET to those
of $FOO.

Telling that a condom is a 98% approximation to platonic ideal of such is
not particulary useful, especially if it turns out that what this number 
really means is that there's a hole on its tip covering 2% of surface...