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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:46:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> The other obvious heuristic is "if the parent directory was
> created in the last five seconds, use find_group_other()".  But
> that made Linus go "ewwww".

Well, it makes me go "less ewww" than the current scheme, so if that turns 
out to be acceptable to others, I won't mind _too_ much.

The reason I don't like time too much persoanlly is that it's not very 
reproducible. Especially if the times are in the second range. I'd rather 
have a heuristic that is deterministic.

		Linus