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| From | Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: torn ACLs [was Re: Don Norman: The Truth About Unix] |
| Date | 2026-04-16 20:32 -0400 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <mddtsta8m0i.fsf@panix5.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <10lob1i$264s$1@dont-email.me> <10lrpph$16028$1@dont-email.me> <slrn10tq1uk.467.anthk@openbsd.home> <mdd1pgg3vb3.fsf_-_@panix5.panix.com> <XwSDR.90880$ZRIe.14754@fx22.iad> |
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
> Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
>> 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.
> They were a features of the Burroughs MCP in the 1960s (called Guard Files).
Thus demonstrating once again that Everything Old Is new Again, or vice versa...
--
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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