On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:23:09AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> > i trust that POSIX has not been hard-coded into the entire design of
> > the linux kernel filesystem architecture _just_ because it's ... POSIX.
>
> No, what got hard-coded were the concepts of inodes as the actual description
> of filesystem objects, directories as lists of name-inode pairs, and the whole
> user/group/other permission thing. "unlink depends on the directory
> permissions not the object unlinked" has been the semantic that people depended
> on
fortunately, selinux has begun the path away from that kind of implicit
ruling.
l.
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