Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:30:24PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:23:56AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> > That's not the point. The point is that Netware has a far superior 
> > permission system and I am suggesting the the Linux community learn from 
> > it and take advantage of seeing what better looks like and improving itself.
> 
> Linux is compatible with unix applications.  Netware is not.  Supporting
> some useless netware feature at the expense of posix/unix compatibility
> would be insane.
> 
> If you can't do it with unix permissions or unix permissions + ACL, you
> don't need to do it at all most likely, and even more likely you

 the bastion sftp example i gave which required selinux on top of a much
 broader set of POSIX file permissions demonstrates the fallacy of your
 statement.

 try to achieve the same effect with POSIX - even POSIX ACLs
 (uploader only has create and write, not read, not delete;
  downloader has read and delete, not write, not create)

 and you will fail, miserably, because under POSIX, write implies
 create.

 l.

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