Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:30:44 +0400 | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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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.
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