Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Nikita Danilov]

Marc Perkel writes:
 > 

[...]

 > 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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