Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:23:09AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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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