Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
 > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:24:12PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
 > 
 > > Marc Perkel writes:
 > > 
 > > [...]
 > > 
 > >  > Right - that's Unix "inside the box" thinking. The idea is to make the 
 > >  > operating system smarter so that the user doesn't have to deal with 
 > >  > what's computer friendly - but reather what makes sense to the user. 
 > >  >  From a user's perspective if you have not rights to access a file then 
 > >  > why should you be allowed to delete it?
 > > 
 > > Because in Unix a name is not an attribute of a file.
 >  
 >  there is no excuse.
 > 
 >  selinux has already provided an alternative that is similar to NW
 >  file permissions.

That's exactly the point: Unix file system model is more flexible than
alternatives. So that one can emulate foreign semantics on top of
it. But not other way around.

Nikita.
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