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SubjectRe: caps in elf, next itteration (the hack get's bigger)

Dave Jones writes:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk wrote:

>> - this has the potential to make it completely unportable to different
>> filesystems (i.e trying to run Linux off NTFS for example 8)
>
> Yeuch, that's bordering on perverse. And I thought UMSDOS was as low as
> people would want to go :)

NTFS has everything we need. Security data was recently decoded.
Symbolic links are in the Windows NT beta, implemented somewhat
like Hurd translators are. Hard links are supported. Case-sensitive
filenames are supported. We have devfs now.

Oh, NTFS has file auditing support and ACLs that are far better than
anything proposed for Linux.

>> Ah, this thought just hit me just now. What we're trying to do is clone
>> VAX/VMS!! 8)
>
> Nooooo!!

I thought the VMS security features posted here looked useful.
VMS also has file record and transaction support.

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