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    SubjectRe: what's next for the linux kernel?
    Marc Perkel writes:
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    [...]

    > Now of you think "outside" the Linux box" you can see where people in
    > the real world would expect that if you have no rights to a file to read
    > or write to it that you shouldn't be able to delete it. In the outside
    > world it's "duh - of course"! but for thouse that are in the "Unix Cult"
    > you can't think past inodes.

    Deleting files without read/write access to them is exactly what happens
    in the real world of classified information: people who physically burn
    paper folders have no right to open them. :-)

    Please understand one simple thing: unlink(2) system call does not
    _remove_ file. It just removes one of possibly many references to this
    file from an index. To erase (a part of) a file body, one uses
    truncate(2) system call that --wonders!-- requires write access to the
    file.

    [...]

    >
    > Once you'be had Netware permissions - even 1990 Netware permission - you
    > are spoiled and everything else isn't even close.
    >

    Repeating "sugar" doesn't make it sweet.

    Nikita.
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