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torn ACLs [was Re: Don Norman: The Truth About Unix]

From Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject torn ACLs [was Re: Don Norman: The Truth About Unix]
Date 2026-04-15 14:58 -0400
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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References (3 earlier) <10ln01t$3hqko$1@dont-email.me> <10lnq6e$643$1@reader2.panix.com> <10lob1i$264s$1@dont-email.me> <10lrpph$16028$1@dont-email.me> <slrn10tq1uk.467.anthk@openbsd.home>

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Anthk <anthk@disroot.org> writes:

> On 2026-02-03, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

>> A patch was submitted some years ago to add Windows-style ACL features
>> to Linux, but it was rejected on the grounds that they can too often
>> produce surprising and counterintuitive effects. Which is something
>> that Windows sysadmins would be all too familiar with ...

> Linux had optional ACL's in FS since late 90's at least.

Access control lists were a feature of TOPS-20 in the 1980s.

-- 
Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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Re: Don Norman: The Truth About Unix Anthk <anthk@disroot.org> - 2026-04-15 06:48 +0000
  Re: Don Norman: The Truth About Unix Bob Eager <throwaway0008@eager.cx> - 2026-04-15 09:27 +0000
    Re: Don Norman: The Truth About Unix Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-04-15 07:40 -0700
  torn ACLs [was Re: Don Norman: The Truth About Unix] Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-04-15 14:58 -0400
    Re: torn ACLs [was Re: Don Norman: The Truth About Unix] scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-04-15 20:27 +0000
      Re: torn ACLs [was Re: Don Norman: The Truth About Unix] Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-04-16 20:32 -0400

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