On Aug 15, 2007, at 14:05:23, Marc Perkel wrote:
In this new system setfacl, chmod, chown, and chgrp all go away
except inside of an emulation layer. File and directories no longer
have permissions. People have permission to naming patterns. So if
you put a file into a tree or move a tree then those who have
permissions to the tree have access to the files.
It eliminates the step of having to apply permission after moving
files into a tree. You don't have to change file permissions
because files no longer have permissions.
And I'm trying to tell you that unless you have some magic new
algorithm that turns NP-complete problems into O(log(N)) problems,
your idea won't work. You can't just say "I just do one little thing
(mv) and the entire rest of the computer automagically changes to
match", because that would imply a single unscalable global kernel
lock. "Pattern"-matching is either NP-complete or high-polynomial-
order, depending on how its implemented, and if you want to do a
recursive-chmod during a directory move then you're going to have
race-conditions out the ass. If you have code or solid math to back
up your postings then please do so, but otherwise you're just wasting
time and bandwidth.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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