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    SubjectRe: what's next for the linux kernel?
    Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
    > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:24:12PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
    >
    > > Marc Perkel writes:
    > >
    > > [...]
    > >
    > > > Right - that's Unix "inside the box" thinking. The idea is to make the
    > > > operating system smarter so that the user doesn't have to deal with
    > > > what's computer friendly - but reather what makes sense to the user.
    > > > From a user's perspective if you have not rights to access a file then
    > > > why should you be allowed to delete it?
    > >
    > > Because in Unix a name is not an attribute of a file.
    >
    > there is no excuse.
    >
    > selinux has already provided an alternative that is similar to NW
    > file permissions.

    That's exactly the point: Unix file system model is more flexible than
    alternatives. So that one can emulate foreign semantics on top of
    it. But not other way around.

    Nikita.
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