Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Marc Perkel]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:41:21AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
>  
>
> > If you were going to do it right here's what you would do:
> >
> > People who had files in /tmp would have no rights at all to other users 
> > /tmp files.
> > Listing the dirtectory would only display the files you had some access 
> > to. If you have no rights you don't even see that the file is there.
> > The effect would be like giving people their own tmp directories.
> >    
>
> Except it still wouldn't be able to go: Does file xyz exist?  If not,
> create file xyz.  If someone else had xyz that you didn't see, you would
> still not be able to create it.  So what is the point of NOT showing it
> other than to make it much harder to avoid conflicting names?
>
> if you want to not see files that you have no rights to, filter it in
> your user space application when it matters, and let user space see the
> files when they need to in order to avoid name conflicts.
>
> It would be an incredibly idiotic system that auto hides files just
> because you can't use them.  We have ways to hide files in user space
> for the convinience of users.  It would be too inconvinient for
> applications if the OS hid files on us.
>
> Len Sorensen
>  

What is incredibly idiotic is a file system that allws you to delete 
files that you have no write access to. That is stupid beyond belief and 
only the Unix community doesn't get it.

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