| Date | Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:44:51 +0100 | From | Lech Szychowski <> | Subject | Re: What's left over. |
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> Yes, people use it. Not quite sure why though, I guess ACLs > buy some flexibility over the user/group/other model but if > the "unlimited groups" patch goes in (is in?) I'm happy ;)
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe a process has to be restarted to have its group membership list changed?
That's a huge difference from ACL behavior which allow for changes to file access rights without the need to restart the accessing process.
-- Leszek.
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