Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_Ken_Thompson_Recalls_Unix=E2=80=99s_Rowdy=2C_Lock-P?= =?UTF-8?Q?icking_Origins?= Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2025 21:08:13 +0100 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <10drbgs$2ef5e$1@dont-email.me> <10ds2lb$2l3kk$1@dont-email.me> <10e3vfi$vttu$1@dont-email.me> <10e6ibr$1pfeb$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net hkQD/UM+kQIRkt1doXmDbAey+Be/075YGxHp+k2YHw72WNVV1A X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:KEsU/3jUhZhTXkaCs+jXD8NIaV0= sha256:wExzXLmOP0CjrOR6fa/wkBtsySA1K+4jCxhhJfySSuk= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10e6ibr$1pfeb$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76969 On 2025-11-02 04:15, Rich wrote: > Unix had all that long before DOS ever existed. The concept of more > than one user and "file ownership" did not appear in the windows world > until NT arrived. And even then, the portion exposed by the win APIs > was a far cry from what Unix had years before DOS existed. On the other hand, the permissions available on Windows 2008 (maybe earlier, but that's when I studied them) are very rich and complex. Much more than in Linux, which had to add ACLs. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;