Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:14:38 +0100 | From | Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <> | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:23:09AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > i trust that POSIX has not been hard-coded into the entire design of > > the linux kernel filesystem architecture _just_ because it's ... POSIX. > > No, what got hard-coded were the concepts of inodes as the actual description > of filesystem objects, directories as lists of name-inode pairs, and the whole > user/group/other permission thing. "unlink depends on the directory > permissions not the object unlinked" has been the semantic that people depended > on
fortunately, selinux has begun the path away from that kind of implicit ruling.
l.
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