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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