Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:24:08 -0700 | From | Joe Bob Spamtest <> | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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Marc Perkel wrote: > 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?
then that file shouldn't be in a directory owned by $otheruser.
> Now - the idea is to create choice. If you need to emulate Unix nehavior > for compatibility that's fine. But I would migrate away from that into a > permissions paradygme that worked like Netware.
the word is 'paradigm.' anyhow, through posix acls and selinux you can achieve the behaviour you so love.
> I started with Netware and I'm spoiled. They had it right 15 years ago > and Linux isn't any where near what I was with Netware and DOS in 1990. > Once you've had this kind of permission power Linux is a real big step > down.
if you like netware so much, then fucking use it. nobody here will stop you.
> So - the thread is about the future so I say - time to fix Unix.
UNIX isn't broken. you're just not asking it to do the right things.
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