On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:13:28 +0200, Helge Hafting
<helge.hafting@idb.hist.no> said:
> Seems to me that some of this can be solved with a good generic
> ACL interface in the VFS. Various filesystems may then implement
> more or less of the VFS interface depending on what they support.
> Just as some filesystems implement links and some don't.
ACLs are just far too varied to be combined effectively in a single
API. We support distributed filesystems like AFS in which the server's
notion of who a user is is completely foreign to the kernel's uid/gid
scheme: how do you propose to identify such users when manipulating AFS
ACLs?
--Stephen
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