Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ???

From: Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 08:15:41 EST


"Joseph D. Wagner" <wagnerjd@prodigy.net> writes:

|> > if you're implying that we can start once
|> > again from bottom, and come up with something
|> > better that unix (which has been opensource,
|> > around for long while, tested and developed
|> > by many as well) I _HIGHLY_ doubt, and disagree.
|>
|> Yes and no.
|>
|> Unix (and Linux) developers are far too concerned with clinging to the
|> 30-year-old outdated POSIX standard, which creates numerous problems when
|> 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 is only codifying existing practice. Would there have been a decent
and agreed-upon ACL API in Unix 10 years ago, POSIX would surely have
standardized it.

Andreas.

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