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SubjectRe: what's next for the linux kernel?
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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