Re: User space ACLs (was Re: [NOT OFFTOPIC] Re: groups)

Feuer (feuer@his.com)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 14:15:02 -0400

More detail?  And please don't send things to my address (unless they're personal). 
I can't filter unless they're sent from the list.  Others using this account do not
want 1000000 messages per day.

ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 08:53:29PM -0400, Feuer wrote:
>
> > Yucky.  That is really gross. I think fs-based metadata is much cleaner.  This
> > should probably be put in the directories in some way.  Linking from the inode
> > table would be cleaner, but would not properly handle hard links.  As for file
> > utilities, I would guess this problem would go away once POSIX supports ACLs.
>
> The POSIX draft has been withdrawn.
>
>   Ralf

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