SUID directories -- security concern?

[Tor Lillqvist]

In article <26270009 at hpclisp.HP.COM> shankar at hpclisp.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
)) As an interesting note under HP-UX 7.0 . . .
)Yes, the directory gets changed to a "context-dependent file".
)(Context-dependent files are used for diskless clusters on HP-UX - the
)"context" is, for example, a hostname of a client, or generic designators
)like "remoteroot").

The context-dependent files in HP-UX is IMHO a rather clever idea.  A
bit like Apollo's symbolic links containing environment variables.  Is
there any chance of other vendors taking up the idea?
-- 
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland