Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:22:27 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6? |
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Sure it's more flexible, but I wonder how many userland > programs will be broken if we change the permission model > and how well users can protect their data this way.
This is not a "change". Existing behaviour clearly cannot change. We're talking about new interfaces to export capabilities in the filesystem.
And pathnames are a _hell_ of a lot better and straightforward interface than inode numbers are. It's confusing when you change the permission on one path to notice that another path magically changed too.
Linus
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