Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

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Marc Perkel wrote:
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?

then that file shouldn't be in a directory owned by $otheruser.

Now - the idea is to create choice. If you need to emulate Unix nehavior for compatibility that's fine. But I would migrate away from that into a permissions paradygme that worked like Netware.

the word is 'paradigm.' anyhow, through posix acls and selinux you can
achieve the behaviour you so love.

I started with Netware and I'm spoiled. They had it right 15 years ago and Linux isn't any where near what I was with Netware and DOS in 1990. Once you've had this kind of permission power Linux is a real big step down.

if you like netware so much, then fucking use it. nobody here will stop you.

So - the thread is about the future so I say - time to fix Unix.

UNIX isn't broken. you're just not asking it to do the right things.

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