Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ??? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 05 Dec 2002 18:09:56 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 12:54, Joseph D. Wagner wrote: > trying to advance new features. For example, the POSIX standard is the > reason we have the three-by-three secure permissions on files (three users: > owner, group, everyone; three permissions: read, write, execute) instead of > Access Control Lists (ACL's).
POSIX allows ACLS and MAC.
> I don't know of any mistakes per say, but if I had to do it over again, > there's about a thousands things I'd do differently (preference in design > choices, not mistakes) especially not to cling so religiously to POSIX > compliance.
And then you'd have no applications.
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